Trump’s ominous warning to Colombia as acting Venezuelan president issues message to world calling for ‘peace and dialogue, not war’

Donald Trump warned Colombia could be the next country to face military action and declared the US was ‘responsible’ for Venezuela after ousting Nicolas Maduro.

President Trump told Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro on Saturday to “watch himself” after Petro described Washington’s attack on Venezuela as an “assault on the sovereignty” of Latin America.

Trump continued his threats against Colombia’s president on Sunday as reporters wondered what his next target might be as he boarded Air Force One.

‘Colombia is also very sick, it is ruled by a sick man who likes to produce cocaine and sell it to the USA, and he will not be able to do this for a very long time,’ he said.

When asked whether the US would conduct a military operation against the country, Trump bluntly replied: ‘Sounds good to me.’

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was to make his first appearance in Manhattan federal court on Monday after being captured by US forces in a daring raid.

Meanwhile, Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, called for ‘peace and dialogue, not war’.

“We prioritize moving toward balanced and respectful international relations between the United States and Venezuela,” Rodriguez said.

‘President Donald Trump, our people and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war. This has always been the message of President Nicolás Maduro, and it is now the message of all of Venezuela.’

Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez (pictured center), called for ‘peace and dialogue, not war’ in his statement

In September, the United States added Colombia, the country that receives the most American aid in the region, to the list of countries that have failed to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years. This appointment led to the cessation of US aid to the country.

“He’s not going to do this for a very long time,” Trump said of Petro on Sunday. ‘There are cocaine factories and cocaine factories. He won’t do that.’

The president also claimed that Cuba was ‘going down’ but stopped short of saying they too might face a military operation.

‘I just think it’s going to fall. He goes down for the count. Have you ever watched a fight? They’re coming down for the count. “Cuba looks like it’s sinking,” he said.

The president spoke aboard Air Force One Sunday night as questions remain about who will lead the demonstration in Caracas.

“Don’t ask me who’s responsible because I’m going to give you an answer and it’s going to be very controversial,” Trump said.

A reporter responded by asking: ‘What does this mean?’

“That means we’re in control,” Trump replied.

But Diosdado Cabello, Maduro’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace, still clings to the idea that Maduro is the legal president of the country.

Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro (pictured left) called Washington’s attack on Venezuela an ‘assault on the sovereignty’ of Latin America, prompting Trump to respond on Saturday that Petro ‘needs to watch himself’.

The comments came after the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a daring raid and took him to New York to face drug trafficking charges.

A defiant Cabello defended her boss in a statement issued through the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.

‘Here the unity of the revolutionary force is more than guaranteed, and here there is only one president whose name is Nicolas Maduro Moros. “No one should fall for the provocations of the enemy,” he said.

Rodriguez struck a more conciliatory tone in his statement Sunday.

“We call on the U.S. government to work together on a cooperation agenda aimed at common development within the framework of international law and to strengthen the lasting coexistence of communities,” he said in his statement.

Trump on Sunday also renewed his call for Denmark to seize Greenland territory for the sake of U.S. security interests; Its top diplomat declared that the communist government in Cuba was in deep trouble.

Trump’s statements following the ouster of Maduro emphasize that the US administration is serious about assuming a broader role in the Western Hemisphere.

‘It’s very strategic right now. “Everywhere in Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships,” Trump told reporters on his way back to Washington from his home in Florida.

‘We need Greenland for national security and Denmark won’t be able to do it.’

Maduro’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, still clings to the idea that Maduro is the legal president of the country

Asked in an interview with The Atlantic earlier Sunday what US military action in Venezuela might mean for Greenland, Trump replied: ‘They’ll have to see for themselves. ‘I really don’t know.’

Trump in his own administration National Security Strategy That document, released last month, laid out restoring “America’s preeminence in the Western Hemisphere” as a central guide for his second trip to the White House.

Trump also highlighted the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, which rejected European colonialism, and the Roosevelt Corollary, a justification the United States used to support Panama’s secession from Colombia that helped secure the Panama Canal Zone for the United States, and took an assertive approach to American neighbors and beyond.

Trump even made a humorous speech, saying that some now call the fifth US president’s foundational document the ‘Don-roe Doctrine’.

The Justice Department on Saturday unsealed a new indictment against Maduro and his wife, painting his administration as a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug trafficking operation that flooded the United States with cocaine.

The US government does not recognize Maduro as the country’s leader.

His trial is scheduled for noon Monday in Manhattan federal court before Judge Alvin Hellerstein.