President Donald Trump has said that Venezuela’s airspace will soon be reopened to commercial flights from the United States, claiming the country was under “very strong control” and that Americans would be safe to travel there. Trump announced the decision during a cabinet meeting on Thursday, saying he had instructed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, as well as the US military, to reopen Venezuelan airspace to US flights. “I just spoke to the president of Venezuela, informed her that we’re going to be opening up all commercial airspace over Venezuela,” the president said. He added that the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was necessary to create a “free, fair, prosperous, and friendly Venezuela.”“And so objective number one was stability. In conjunction with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Transportation barred most commercial flights to Venezuela in May 2019, offering only limited exemptions.