Venezuela.- Venezuela has denounced the U.S. seizure of a second aircraft in the Dominican Republic, calling it a “shameless theft” and accusing U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio of being an “airplane thief.

The Trump administration has seized the second of two planes belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government that is currently in the Dominican Republic.

The aircraft was handed over to the US authorities in the presence of State Secretary Marco Rubio, who is known for being a staunch opponent of Latin America’s leftist authoritarians like Venezuelan P