Following the motion in Venezuela, the Trump administration is alluding to potential motion elsewhere within the area.
In remarks aboard Air Power One Sunday night time, 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 navy operation there as nicely, 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 every of 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 quite a lot of hassle.”
“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 suppose it is any thriller that we’re not massive followers of the Cuban regime, who, by the way in which, are those that have been propping up Maduro.”
He mentioned Cuban officers have 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 have been additionally in control of “inner intelligence” in Maduro’s authorities.
The Cuban authorities mentioned Sunday that 32 Cubans have been killed throughout the U.S. navy operation to seize Maduro.
Mr. Trump mentioned that the Cuban financial system, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, is in tatters and can slide additional now with the ouster of Maduro, who supplied the Caribbean island sponsored oil.
“It is happening,” Mr. Trump mentioned of Cuba. “It is happening for the rely.”
-CBS/AP
