Trump says that US is ‘in charge’ of Venezuela after seize of Maduro | EUROtoday

Donald Trump insisted on Sunday night time that the U.S. is “in charge” of Venezuela after American navy forces toppled Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.

Trump informed reporters onboard Air Force One that his administration was “dealing with the people that just got sworn in,” seemingly referring to appearing president Delcy Rodriguez.

“Don’t ask me who’s in charge, because I’ll give you an answer, and it’ll be very controversial,” Trump mentioned as he flew from Florida again to Washington, D.C.

When requested what he meant, Trump replied: “It means we’re in charge. We’re in charge.”

Trump mentioned that though he had not but spoken to the nation’s appearing president, he would accomplish that “at the right time.”

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He additionally claimed that Rodriguez was “cooperating” with the White House after the extraction of Maduro, who is about to look in a New York court docket on Monday.

“Venezuela right now is a dead country. We have to bring it back, and we’re gonna have to have big investments by the oil companies to bring back the infrastructure ready to go,” Trump added.

The president additionally mentioned that Rodriguez wanted to provide the U.S. “total access” to the nation.

“We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country,” Trump mentioned.

He informed reporters that Rodriguez would face a state of affairs most likely worse than Maduro” if she didn’t cooperate, however didn’t elaborate on what that may appear to be.

Trump additionally claimed that Maduro had despatched “every single drug addict” from Venezuela to the U.S.

“Think of that every single drug addict from Maduro’s country, which isn’t really his country, and it’s certainly not his country anymore,” he mentioned.

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“Every drug addict and every drug dealer has been sent into our country. Now we’re getting them back.”

Trump additionally turned his consideration to Venezuela’s neighbor, Colombia, and gave its president, Gustavo Petro, a warning, claiming the nation was “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”

“He’s not going to be doing it for very long,” Trump informed reporters.

“He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories. He’s not going to be doing it.” Asked whether or not the U.S. would conduct an operation in opposition to Colombia, he mentioned, “It sounds good to me.”