White House says Venezuela’s future 'dictated' by US as Trump embraces ‘American dominance’
The White House said that the Trump administration is working in tandem with interim Venezuelan authorities and has made it clear that U.S. dominance will prevail after the toppling of...
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The White House said that the Trump administration is working in tandem with interim Venezuelan authorities and has made it clear that U.S. dominance will prevail after the toppling of dictator Nicolás Maduro's regime. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. had conducted strikes in Caracas, Venezuela, captured Maduro, and that the U.S. would run the country until a safe transition could occur. Currently, Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, is serving as interim president. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the Trump administration, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other members of the president’s national security team are working in "close coordination with the interim authorities, and their decisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States of America." "We obviously have maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now. And the president has made it very clear that this is a country … close by the United States that is no longer going to be sending illegal drugs to the United States of America. It's no longer going to be sending and trafficking illegal people and criminal cartels to kill American citizens, as they have in the past. And the president is fully deploying his peace through strength foreign policy agenda." UNITED NATIONS 'UPSET' THAT TRUMP TOOK 'BOLD ACTION' TO IMPROVE VENEZUELA, SAYS UN AMB. MIKE WALTZ "The administration has made it quite clear to the interim authorities in Venezuela that this is the Western Hemisphere, and American dominance is going to continue under this president," Leavitt said. Trump announced Tuesday that Venezuela's interim government would hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and that the oil would be sold "immediately." Rubio told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. has the upper hand right now in Venezuela, due to a "quarantine" on sanctioned oil from Venezuela. "They are not gene…