V allowedenezuela blocks Panama plane carrying senior politicians.Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino said a flight carrying former presidents of Mexico, Bolivia and Costa Rica to Venezuela to observe elections has not been allowed to take off.A plane carrying a number of former Latin American presidents hoping to observe Venezuela’s anticipated elections this weekend was not allowed to take off from Tocumen airport in Panama, the country’s President Jose Raul Mulino said on Friday.
The plane carrying former Panamanian president Mireya Moscoso and other ex-presidents was denied permission to “take off from Tocumen as long as they remain on board,” Mulino said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). This was due to “the blockade of Venezuelan airspace,” he wrote.
