Venezuela accuses US of spying on Non-Aligned summit

[Zorro]

Venezuela accused the United States on Tuesday of spying on a Non-Aligned Movement summit it recently hosted, saying Venezuelan fighter jets had intercepted a US surveillance plane and forced it to turn back.

President Nicolas Maduro's latest beef with Washington comes after Venezuela hosted leaders from the 120-member group on the Caribbean island of Margarita last weekend, a meeting that featured numerous jabs at US foreign policy.

"We know a military aircraft carried out flight patterns 130 nautical miles from Margarita island, collecting information, carrying out intelligence operations on the summit," said Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez.

He said a US Coast Guard Dash 8 plane was detected near Venezuelan airspace on Friday and Saturday, "flagrantly violating international norms" by failing to announce itself to the Venezuelan military's air traffick controllers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-accuses-us-spying-non-aligned-summit-230444773.html

"Near Venezuelan airspace" is a provocation? Maduro is as full of shit as Trump.

[Nitram]

1. I can guarantee the CIA is indeed spying on the summit.

that's their job.

[hack89]

2. The US Coast Guard does not fly Dash-8s. The Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard does

They fly out of Curacao - about 200 miles from Margarita.