He claims Cuba “is going to fall” without a repeat of the Venezuela incursion and that the US will “have to do something” about drug trafficking in Mexico
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the idea of carrying out an operation in Colombia similar to the one conducted the previous day in Venezuela “sounds good” to him. In that operation, US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and bombed several locations in Caracas and the states of Aragua and La Guaira, an incursion that has raised numerous questions about the Trump administration’s intention to replicate it in other countries.
“It sounds good to me, and to a lot of people, yes,” the Republican magnate responded when asked about his willingness to repeat the operation against Maduro in the neighboring country presided over by Gustavo Petro, with whom he has had multiple clashes.
For Trump, Colombia “is very sick, governed by a sick man who likes to produce cocaine and sell it to the United States.” “He has cocaine mills and factories,” he alleged, indicating that “he’s not going to keep doing it for much longer.”
CUBA “IS ABOUT TO FALL”
Regarding a repeat of the incursion in Cuba, the president assured that the island nation “is about to fall,” since “they got all their income from Venezuela, from Venezuelan oil, [and] they’re not getting anything.”
“I think it’s just going to fall. I don’t think we’ll take any action,” he clarified, insisting that “it’s sinking” and adding that “many Cuban Americans will be very happy about this.”
Amidst his remarks on Cuba, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also spoke, backing Trump by emphasizing that “the economy was all Venezuelan” and adding that Maduro’s security team was Cuban, in statements simultaneous to Cuba’s announcement of the death of 32 of its soldiers in the context of the US operation in Venezuela. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel himself has stated that they were “helping to protect” the lives of the Venezuelan leader and his wife “at the request of that sister nation.”
“WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING” IN MEXICO
On the other hand, Trump has urged Mexico to “step up its game” regarding its anti-drug trafficking operations, claiming that drugs “are pouring in through Mexico.”
“We’re going to have to do something. We would love for Mexico to do it. They’re capable of doing it. But, unfortunately, the cartels are very strong in Mexico,” he declared, before asserting that he had offered troops to his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, “every time” they spoke.
The White House occupant, who described Sheinbaum as “a wonderful person,” emphasized that she “is worried (and) a little scared.” “Like it or not, it’s not pleasant to say, but the cartels control Mexico,” he asserted regarding the security situation facing the Spanish-speaking country.
