He Washington's coup against the Nicolás Maduro regime has been forceful. But it is not the first time that US planes and helicopters have operated over Venezuelan airspace. In June 1958, in a country parched by extreme drought, "a convoy of planes loaded with drums [drums] water"Intended to help the population of Caracas. Gabriel García Márquez explained it, Gabo, in "Caracas without water", published in Journalistic workVolume 4, page 609.

In the 1950s and 60s, the competition among shipowners to possess the largest tanker in the world's oil fleet intensely shook the oil market. The main protagonists of this battle were the Greeks Stavros Niarchos and Aristotle Onassis, and the American Daniel Keith Ludwig, who would eventually become one of the richest men in the world.