American cuts Venezuela flights in trapped-cash dispute

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10. People that work for a living

are selling their skills and labor for a price that they call their wages. If you pay me $12.92 per hour, I'll provide technical support for your Internet service provider. And if you refuse to pay me according to our agreement, I'll refuse to do the work and I'll take my skills elsewhere. Simple enough.
If you owned a small business, and a customer of yours refused to pay you, would you continue to provide services for them?
If your boss refused to pay you, would you keep working?
Venezuela refuses to pay the airline the money they are owed. So they are cutting flights. If I were in charge, I would pull every plane out of the country and refuse to fly there any more at all, until I got paid what I was owed.
Unless you think the airlines should work for free. How would the airline pay it's workers? How would they fuel their planes? How would they provide maintenance and spare parts for the planes?