‘Venezuela is going to do fantastically well…will make more money’: Trump at Davos days after Maduro’s capture

Trump claimed the country will make “more money in the next six months than the last 20 years” and “every major oil company is coming in with us. It’s amazing. It’s a beautiful thing to see.”

The US military on January 3 launched an operation to capture Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores after the American forces carried out several strikes against Venezuelan-linked boats off the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean, which the Trump administration has claimed were carrying drugs.

Other than levelling “narcoterrorism” charges against Maduro, one of the objectives for Washington to launch Operation “Absolute Resolve” was to get Caracas rid of a president who, according to US claim, stole the 2024 Venezuelan elections..”