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.