Mapped: Every nation Trump has threatened after seize of Venezuelan president Maduro | EUROtoday

Donald Trump has issued a listing of threats towards a number of nations after American troops captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

The U.S. president has adopted Maduro’s shock arrest with threats towards Colombia, Mexico, Greenland, Iran and Cuba.

Maduro will seem in a New York courtroom at 12pm E.T. (5pm GMT), the place he faces fees of narco-terrorism, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine weapons and harmful gadgets, and conspiracy to own machine weapons and harmful gadgets. He faces many years to life in jail on every rely if convicted.

As the fallout over Maduro’s arrest continues, The Independent seems at each nation Trump has just lately threatened, after his boast that “American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again”.

Venezuela

For months, the US has been placing what it describes as Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ which it claims are carrying narcotics to the US.

Since the primary strike in September, Trump has ordered an unprecedented buildup of navy property close to the nation’s Caribbean coast and issued a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers.

The U.S. seized Maduro and his spouse in a navy operation Saturday, capturing them of their house on a navy base.

Colombia

Trump has warned Colombian president Gustavo Petro – one among his fiercest critics on the worldwide stage – that the South American nation could possibly be the following to face US navy motion.

The US sanctioned Petro final autumn after Trump blamed him for failing to curb drug trafficking within the nation and permitting cartels to “flourish”.

Colombia has turn into a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who’ve fled Maduro’s rule in recent times.

“Colombia is very sick, too, run by ‍a ‌sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, ‍and he’s not going to be doing it very long,” he instructed reporters whereas on board Air Force One.

When requested whether or not the US would perform a navy operation, the U.S. president mentioned: “It sounds good to ‍me. You know why? Because they kill a lot of people.”

Mexico

Mexico has lengthy been a goal of Trump’s anger, with the US President blaming the federal government for failing to take care of drug cartels and forestall the stream of migrants throughout the border.

Drugs are “pouring” by Mexico, Trump mentioned final 12 months, describing the cartels as “very strong”.

He mentioned that Mexico, which has been led by left-wing president Claudia Sheinbaum since October 2024, “has to get their act together” or “we’re going to have to do something”.

Trump claims to have supplied Sheinbaum the US navy’s assist to root out drug cartels.

On Monday, Sheinbaum mentioned that Mexico is a sovereign nation and was cooperating with the US on drug trafficking and safety.

“We categorically reject intervention in the internal matters of other countries,” she mentioned.

Greenland

Fears are rising that Trump may order U.S. navy motion in Greenland after repeated threats to grab the territory.

“We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defence,” Trump instructed The Atlantic journal on Sunday.

Meanwhile Katie Miller, the spouse of one among Mr Trump’s senior aides Stephen Miller, posted an image on social media of Greenland within the colors of the American flag alongside the phrase “soon” following the Venezuela operation.

Trump’s need for a U.S. takeover of the mineral-rich self-governing Danish territory has been no secret since he resumed workplace in January final 12 months.

On Monday, Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen in a press release that “the US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom”, of which Greenland is one.

Iran

Trump has lengthy thought of Iran’s regime one among America’s primary adversaries. Last June, the US joined an Israeli bombing marketing campaign geared toward destroying the nation’s nuclear programme.

Last week, he weighed in on the continuing protests in Iran over the price of dwelling, by which no less than eight folks have reportedly been killed by police. Protesters have referred to as for the overthrow of the supreme chief Ayatollah Khamenei.

“If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue…We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” he wrote on Truth Social.

It is not clear how the US could help the protesters. Speaking to reporters in Air Force One, Trump only said: “If they start killing people like they have in the past, I think they’re going to get hit very hard by the United States.”

Cuba

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned on Sunday that he believes Cuba is “in a lot of trouble” following the seize of Maduro, a key ally.

“I’m not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard,” Rubio instructed NBC. “But I don’t think it’s any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro.”

Trump says the US could not have to intervene in Cuba, one among Venezuela’s key allies, as he claims that the nation is “ready to fall” following Maduro’s seize.

“I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it. Cuba literally is ready to fall.”