“US President Donald Trump has said that there will be no elections in Venezuela in the near future because the country needs a long American-led recovery. He also warned that American forces are ready to invade again if the current authorities in Caracas stop cooperating with Washington.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images Source: Trump in an interview with a TV channel NBC News
Details: Trump has denied that the United States is at war with Venezuela. According to him, this is a war against “people who empty their prisons, release their drug addicts and mental hospital patients and send them to our country.”
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Trump said that the Vice President of Venezuela, Delsey Rodriguez, who succeeded the kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, is cooperating with the US government.
According to him, a group of high-ranking officials will oversee the processes in Venezuela, which will include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House Stephen Miller and Vice President JD Vance.
At the same time, the US president threatened repeated military intervention if Rodriguez refused to cooperate.
Direct speech: “We’re prepared to do it. In fact, we expected to have to do it.”
Details: The US president also ruled out holding new elections in Venezuela within the next 30 days. He emphasized that first it is necessary to “heal the country”. The process, he estimated, could take less than 18 months, but would require “tremendous costs” that would later be recouped through oil revenues.
Prehistory:
- On the night of January 3 Trump ordered strikes on targets in Venezuela.
- Shortly thereafter, the US military captured the country’s leader Nicolás Maduro with his wife and they were sent to New Yorkwhere they are going to judge.
- Trump stated that The US will rule Venezuelauntil they provide “independent transition”.
- The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Venezuela ruled that Vice President Delsey Rodríguez will perform the duties of the country’s president during Maduro’s absence.