U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he did not see Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado as a potential replacement for Nicolas Maduro after he was removed from power overnight.
Newsweek reached out to Machado’s team for comment on Saturday afternoon.
“I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within – or the respect within – the country,” Trump said, adding that he thought she was a “very nice woman” when addressing the potential for her to take power.
Trump said that the U.S. had not been in contact with Machado at any point on Saturday, when the U.S. entered Venezuela and launched strikes on Caracas as American forces captured Maduro and extracted him from the country. He is headed to the U.S. to face trial.
Trump had earlier in the press conference said that the U.S. would look to run Venezuela and help build up and expand its oil infrastructure.
“We have to be surrounded by safe, secure countries, and we also have to have energy – very important – we have to have energy that’s real energy,” Trump said.
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Rejecting the opposition??? Why?
This invasion was NEVER about narcotics!
Are we witnessing the emergence/or return of US colonialism?
@ Brixtonian
Did CARICOM hold a joint press conference after they met with Marco Rubio in Jamaica last year?
Has there been any Caribbean news outlet that provides an analysis of the US government policy towards the Caribbean region.
For Trump this is purely about oil and he has always made thst clear.
For Marco Rubio s Cuban American it’s about regime change in Venezuela and Cuba.
For Steven Miller it’s about immigration and Venezuelan gangs
Narcotics trafficking is the cover to address those issues by regime change.
Why would Maduro and his wife want to be involved in narcotics trafficking when they have access to all of Venezuelas oil wealth?
Anyone of notes who has anything to say or write offered is the same rhetorical statements filled with jargons.
The exception being the Prime Minister of T&T who offered a number of crude statements in defense of her position.
The US has to first take complete control of Venezuela oil fields and refineries and have Venezuelans sign over their rights with a gun at their heads.
Thats what it means when The YS says it will govern Venezuela until there is proper transition
It’s thief’s by might.
The party they claimed won the last election is ruled out and pushed aside, after the capture of Msduro, isn’t that a bitch? They now prefer to continue to work with the same Maduro government ie Vice president and other ministers, keep in mind the strong speech that was made by the Vice president immediately after the capture of Maduro, now does this makes any sense? Long road ahead for the Venezuelan people.