President Trump doubled down on his warning to Colombian President Gustavo Petro at his press conference Saturday announcing the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro – and followed with one for Cuba.
“He has cocaine mills, he has factories where he makes cocaine. And yeah, I think I stick by my first statement: He’s making cocaine,” Trump said of Petro.
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“They’re sending it to the United States. So he does have to watch his ass,” Trump said at Mar-a-Lago shortly after slamming Maduro as a “narco-terrorist.”
His latest warning came weeks after Trump branded Petro a “troublemaker” and said he “better watch it.” Petro has been repeatedly posting criticisms online of the US operation in Venezuela.
Trump also labeled Cuba – which relies on Venezuelan oil and furnished Maduro with security guards – and its president Miguel Díaz-Canel a “failing nation.”
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“Cuba, as you know, is not doing very well right now. That system has not been a very good one for Cuba.
The people there have suffered for many, many years, and I think Cuba is going to be something we’ll end up talking about, because Cuba is a failing nation right now.
“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.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a former Florida senator and Cuba hawk, called the communist regime a “disaster” run by “incompetent senile men.”
