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Pedro Camacho

Venezuela's Maduro Bans Use of Drones As Tensions Over Deployment Of U.S. Warships Escalate

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (Credit: PEDRO RANCES MATTEY/AFP via Getty Images)

The Maduro regime has temporarily banned the purchase, sale, and operation of drones in Venezuelan territory, citing national security concerns as tensions with the United States continue to escalate.

"Given the duty of the National Executive to regulate and control navigation in the airspace... the purchase, sale, manufacture, import, distribution, training, registration and operation of remotely piloted aircraft (drones) is suspended and prohibited," Venezuela's Transportation Minister Ramón Velásquez Araguayán said in a statement picked up by The Associated Press.

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