Following the motion in Venezuela, the Trump administration is alluding to potential motion elsewhere within the area.
In remarks aboard Air Power One Sunday evening, Mr. Trump talked about Colombian President Gustavo Petro, saying Colombia is “very sick too, run by a really sick man.”
Mr. Trump mentioned he felt Petro is “not going to be doing it for very lengthy,” and when requested if he would perform a army operation there as properly, the president responded, “Sounds good to me.”
Earlier within the day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a brand new stern warning to the Cuban authorities, a longtime U.S. adversary and one in all Venezuela’s most essential allies and buying and selling companions. Rubio, in an look on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” mentioned he thinks “they’re in numerous bother.”
“I am not going to speak to you about what our future steps are going to be and our insurance policies are going to be proper now on this regard,” Rubio mentioned. “However I do not assume it is any thriller that we aren’t massive followers of the Cuban regime, who, by the way in which, are those that had been propping up Maduro.”
He mentioned Cuban officers had been with Maduro in Venezuela forward of his seize.
“It was Cubans that guarded Maduro,” Rubio mentioned. “He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards,” including that Cuban bodyguards had been additionally in control of “inside intelligence” in Maduro’s authorities.
The Cuban authorities mentioned Sunday that 32 Cubans had been killed through the U.S. army operation to seize Maduro.
Mr. Trump mentioned that the Cuban economic system, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, is in tatters and can slide additional now with the ouster of Maduro, who offered the Caribbean island sponsored oil.
“It is happening,” Mr. Trump mentioned of Cuba. “It is happening for the depend.”
-CBS/AP
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