In the Tea Room of his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday morning, Donald Trump triumphantly announced details of the overnight US mission to topple and capture Nicolás Maduro in the heart of Caracas.
But the US president went far beyond that: he also pledged that Washington would now “run” Venezuela until further notice, raising the prospect of a heavy-handed, open-ended American involvement in the Latin American country.
“We’re not doing this in vain,” Trump told reporters, with his top national security and military officers by his side. “We want to surround ourselves with good neighbours. We want to surround ourselves with stability. We want to surround ourselves with energy.”
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