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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.

This is Owen Bennett Jones.

Now, it's just a truth social message, but President Trump's statement that the airspace above and around Venezuela

should be considered completely closed has already had an impact. A flight tracking map shows

virtually no planes above Venezuela now, just a few around the edge of the country. But what does

Mr. Trump have in mind? Carlos Camacho is a

freelance journalist in Caracas. What are people saying there? What are they expecting?

They expect it to be quick. That's when one lady told me. Whatever they are up to, I hope they get it

done fast, she told me. And that pretty much sums up the sentiment here.

But what do people think it is? There are different theories, but she was referring specifically to

U.S. military action in the sense of perhaps a forceful arrest of certain persons who are wanted in the U.S.,

those who have bounties on their heads, which are the Troika, so to speak.

Nicholas Maduro, Vladimir Padino, and Diosdado Cabello.

Right. So people are expecting an attempt to basically change the Venezuelan government?

Extract. I think it's extract. Well, we have seen so many strange things happening in 26

years of Chavismo that some foreigners coming in and kidnapping the president is not the

weirdest thing we have seen. So people are, half are hopeful and half all resign.

But they all hope it's over quick.

Well, the president seems a bit resigned.

He's said, this is Maduro,

the fate of Venezuela is now in the hands of Jesus Christ.

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