At President Donald Trump’s direction, the United States armed forces captured outlaw Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores in order to bring them to justice for their campaign of narco-terrorism against the United States.
“The illegitimate dictator Maduro was the kingpin of a vast criminal network responsible for trafficking colossal amounts of deadly and illicit drugs into the United States,” said President Trump.
“As alleged in the indictment, he personally oversaw the vicious cartel known as Cartel de los Soles, which flooded our nation with lethal poison responsible for the deaths of countless Americans, the many, many Americans, hundreds of thousands over the years of Americans died because of him.”
“For many years after his term as president of Venezuela expired, Maduro remained in power and waged a ceaseless campaign of violence, terror, and subversion against the United States of America, threatening not only our people, but the stability of the entire region,” noted President Trump.
Maduro sent savage gangs, including the prison gang Tren de Aragua, to terrorize American communities nationwide. The Maduro regime emptied out its prisons, sent their worst and most violent criminals into the United States to take American lives, said President Trump.
The U.S. built the Venezuelan oil industry with American talent, drive, and skill, and the socialist regime stole it through force from the U.S. during previous administrations, noted President Trump. The United States is now going to help revitalize the oil business in Venezuela, he said.
“We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure. And start making money for the country.”
Under Maduro, Venezuela was increasingly hosting foreign adversaries in the region and acquiring offensive weapons that could threaten U.S. interests and lives. “All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy dating back more than two centuries. . .to the Monroe Doctrine,” said President Trump.
Under its new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again, declared the President.
“We will secure our borders, we will stop the terrorists, we will crash the cartels, and we will defend our citizens against all threats, foreign and domestic. Other presidents may have lacked the courage. . .to defend America, but I will never allow terrorists and criminals to operate with impunity against the United States.”
“This extremely successful operation should serve as a warning to anyone who would threaten American sovereignty or endanger American lives,” said President Trump. “ All political and military figures in Venezuela should understand what happened to Maduro can happen to them, and it will happen to them if they aren't just, fair, [and] even to their people.”
US Military Captures Outlaw Nicolas Maduro
- Policy Office
At President Donald Trump’s direction, the United States armed forces captured outlaw Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores in order to bring them to justice for their campaign of narco-terrorism against the United States.