President Trump suggested Wednesday that the US will oversee Venezuela for at least a year following the Jan. 3 arrest of the South American country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on federal drug and weapons charges.
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President Trump suggested Wednesday that the US will oversee Venezuela for at least a year following the Jan. 3 arrest of the South American country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on federal drug and weapons charges.
“We will rebuild it in a very profitable way,” Trump told the New York Times in a lengthy interview. “We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil. We’re getting oil prices down, and we’re going to be giving money to Venezuela, which they desperately need.”
The president initially said “only time will tell” when asked how long the US will have a direct say in Venezuela’s affairs, but when reporters suggested various periods of time up to a year, Trump admitted: “I would say much longer.”
Trump also did not say when new elections in Venezuela might take place after he endorsed Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, as the head of the Caracas government rather than opposition leader María Corina Machado.
