Donald Trump threatens to remove sick Colombia

US President Donald Trump appeared to foreshadow a potential army operation in Colombia, denouncing the nation’s chief as a “sick man” who sells cocaine to Americans.

The feedback got here days after the US launched a particular forces raid in Venezuela, kidnapping both President Nicolas Maduro and his spouse. “Colombia is very sick too. Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, and he’s not gonna be doing it very long,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One Sunday night.

“So there will be an operation by the US in Colombia?” one reporter requested.

“Sounds good to me,” President Trump responded vaguely, offering no additional insight to his reply. One day after Maduro and his spouse, Cilia Flores, arrived to New York City for reserving, Trump threatened other South American international locations, including Cuba, Mexico and Colombia, with army intervention if one thing does not change.

Geopolitical specialists in latest days have said the legality of the president’s actions is murky.

The president’s remarks that the United States just isn’t scared to place “boots on the ground” in the nation suggest that the administration will not hesitate to keep an ongoing presence in the area, and the stunning assault on Caracas comes after Trump lately asserted his own model of the Monroe Doctrine.

Trump responded, “I think Cuba is going to be something we’ll end up talking about, because Cuba is a failing nation right now,” when requested how the Caribbean nation ought to perceive the Venezuelan operation.

“We want to help the people. It’s very similar in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba, but we want to also help the people that were forced out of Cuba and living in this country.”

Additionally, the president intensified his criticism of Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, and asserted that the Latin American nation has at least three important cocaine factories.

“He’s making cocaine. They’re sending it into the United States. So he does have to watch his ass,” Trump said Saturday, echoing feedback he made last month.

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Trump acknowledged earlier on Saturday that “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico” when requested about the nation’s southern neighbor on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” program.

Trump continued by claiming that drug gangs are in charge of Mexico somewhat than President Claudia Sheinbaum.

“We could be politically correct and be nice and say, ‘Oh yeah she is.’ She is very frightened of the cartels,” Trump said. “They’re running Mexico. I’ve asked her numerous times would you like us to take out the cartels. ‘No, no, no, Mr. President, no, no, no, please.’ So we have to do something.”

Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba have been among the nations criticizing the U.S. motion in Venezuela, claiming the assault threatened the steadiness of the world.

“Latin America and the Caribbean is a zone of peace, built on the basis of mutual respect, the peaceful settlement of disputes and the prohibition of the use and threat of force, so any military action seriously jeopardizes regional stability,” Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, according to a translation of its assertion.