Passengers wait at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport as all flights are cancelled following US military action in Venezuela, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 3, 2026. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images
The airspace over the Caribbean has reopened after the Federal Aviation Administration restricted flights in coordination with the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.
The FAA restrictions went into effect early on Jan. 3 as U.S. special forces in an overnight raid took Maduro and Flores into custody and transported them to New York City to face charges for narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
