On Thursday, the Trump administration seized a Dassault Falcon 200 business jet that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and members of his government had been using to fly around Latin America. The plane was parked in the Dominican Republic when American agents affixed a seizure warrant to the aircraft, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Justice Department signed off on it:
The Trump administration on Thursday seized a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government that is currently in the Dominican Republic.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio watched as American officials affixed the seizure warrant to the plane during a visit to Santo Domingo, the last stop of his five-nation tour of Latin America.
Carrying out the seizure required that Rubio sign off on a waiver to a freeze that President Donald Trump imposed on…
