US President Donald Trump and his administration issued warnings to several countries after the operation in Venezuela on Saturday, when US forces captured Nicolas Maduro, CNN wrote.
On Sunday, a day after the capture of the Venezuelan president, Donald Trump said the US wants around it “viable and successful countries where the oil is allowed to flow freely”.
“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” Trump said.
Brought to the US, Maduro is charged by US authorities with narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of automatic weapons and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess automatic weapons and destructive devices. If convicted, he faces between decades and life in prison on each count.
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Greenland
On Sunday, the US president reiterated that the US needs Greenland “from a national security perspective”.
“We need Greenland (…). It's so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships everywhere,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, qualified Donald Trump's speech as “unacceptable”.
“When the president of the United States talks about 'needing Greenland' and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it's not only wrong. It's disrespectful,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen said Monday.
Colombia
Over the weekend, the US president described his Colombian counterpart as “a sick man who likes to manufacture cocaine and ship it to the United States”.
Asked by a reporter if the remarks meant there could be an “operation” in Colombia in the near future, Trump replied: “Sounds good to me.”
Colombia's president has defended his country's anti-drug policy.
“I vowed not to touch any weapon again… but for the homeland I will take up arms again,” President Petro, who was a guerrilla before becoming a politician, wrote in a post on X.
Cuba
On Sunday, Donald Trump said there was no need for military intervention in Venezuela's key ally Cuba because it was already “ready to fall.”
“I don't think we need any action now,” the US leader said.
“I don't know if it will last, but Cuba now has no income,” he added.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the Cuban government as “a huge problem”.
“I don't think it's any secret that we're not big fans of the Cuban regime,” Rubio said Sunday on NBC.
“If I lived in Havana and worked in the government, I would be concerned,” the American official said.
On Saturday, on the sidelines of a demonstration held at the US embassy in Havana, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel promised that he would not abandon the alliance with Venezuela without a fight.
“For Venezuela, of course, for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own lives, but at a heavy price,” said President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Mexico
Trump, who has frequently accused Mexico of not doing enough against drug cartels, has argued that large amounts of narcotics flow into the United States through the neighboring country. “We're going to have to do something,” he said Sunday.
The US president told Fox News that he asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum if she wanted the support of the US military to fight the cartels.
On Monday, Sheinbaum reiterated his country's opposition to Washington's capture of Venezuela's president and any US intervention in Mexico.
“We categorically reject interference in the internal affairs of other countries,” Sheinbaum was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Strong position of the president of Mexico towards the US: “Subordination and intervention, no”
Iran
Trump also resumed his threats against Iran, where the protests entered their second week.
“If they start killing people like they did in the past, I think they will be hit very hard by the United States,” the US leader told reporters on Sunday.
Last week, he warned that if Iran “kills peaceful protesters, as they are wont to do, the United States of America will come to their rescue.”
Additionally, recently, after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Donald Trump had threatened to “eradicate” Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
On Sunday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Islamic Republic “will not surrender to the enemy” and that the protesters should be “put in their place”.
