Venezuela is facing severe air isolation after four more airlines joined earlier safety-related flight suspensions announced by several carriers.

For months, U.S. pressure on Venezuela has included a buildup of military force in the region and threats of military action, along with strikes on alleged drug boats off its coast. Yet it remains ambiguous as to what,

The Trump administration is facing mounting congressional pushback over more than 20 military strikes in Caribbean, as lawmakers seek to limit Venezuela operations.

The U.S. Department of State on Wednesday warned Americans against traveling to Venezuela, maintaining a Level 4—“Do Not Travel"—advisory first issued in May amid rising tensions over the U.S.'s anti-drug trafficking campaign and pressure on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. senators filed a resolution on Wednesday that would block U.S. military action against Venezuela without congressional approval, after U.S. President Donald Trump said a land campaign would begin shortly.

Joesley Batista, co-owner of a sprawling business empire led by the meat-processing giant JBS NV, is quietly positioning himself as a connector trying to defuse political tensions between the Trump administration and Venezuela’s ruling regime.

The flights with Venezuelans who had been living in the United States arrived at a time of airspace safety concerns as the U.S. military pressures Venezuela’s leader.

As President Donald Trump promises U.S. military action targeting cartels within Venezuela’s borders, a national security expert warned there could “absolutely" be reprisals against U.S. citizens.