{"id":9184,"date":"2026-01-04T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:04:22","slug":"trump-says-were-going-to-run-venezuela-and-is-not-afraid-to-send-u-s-troops-after-maduro-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9184","title":{"rendered":"Trump says ‘we’re going to run’ Venezuela and is not afraid to send U.S. troops after Maduro ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump signaled an extended American involved in Venezuela after the U.S. military captured Nicolas Maduro to face drug charges in New York.<\/p>\n

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In comments to reporters on Saturday, Trump said U.S. officials would be in charge and didn\u2019t shy away from putting troops in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe proper and judicious transition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump also suggested the U.S. would use Venezuela\u2019s oil wealth to pay for the mission and reimburse American companies that operated there previously but whose assets were nationalized by the socialist regime.<\/p>\n

In addition, he predicted U.S. energy companies would spend billions of dollars to rebuild the country\u2019s oil infrastructure and boost extraction. At the same time, Trump added that the U.S. oil embargo on Venezuela will remain in effect.<\/p>\n

He suggested the U.S. State Department and Pentagon will control Venezuela with the cooperation of officials in the Maduro government.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been in contact with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who said \u201cwe\u2019ll do whatever you need,\u201d according to Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she was quite gracious, but she really doesn\u2019t have a choice,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have this done right. We\u2019re not going to just do this with Maduro then leave like everybody else\u2014leave and say, you know, let it go to hell. If we just left, it has zero chance of ever coming back. We\u2019ll run it properly. We\u2019ll run it professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump dismissed opposition figure Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, as a potential new leader, saying she lacks enough support at home. For her part, Machado said on social media that Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, whom the opposition says won last year\u2019s election, \u201cmust immediately assume his constitutional mandate\u201d as president.<\/p>\n

When pressed on the potential role of the U.S. military going forward and whether there will be boots on the ground, Trump left it open as a possibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not afraid of boots on the ground,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not afraid of it. We\u2019re we don\u2019t mind saying it, and we\u2019re gonna make sure that that country is run properly. We\u2019re not doing this in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told reporters that U.S. forces remain in the region at a high state of readiness.<\/p>\n

Trump said the military is ready to stage another, much larger attack if necessary, but said that appears unlikely given the success of the initial strike. Meanwhile, the U.S. fleet that has assembled in the region will remain in position until U.S. demands \u201chave been fully met and fully satisfied,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For now, U.S. involvement appears focused on the energy sector, according to his remarks. Venezuela has the world\u2019s largest proved oil reserves, but production has waned and the economy has collapsed amid American sanctions and Maduro\u2019s mismanagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re sending our expertise in, so you may need something, not very much. But now we\u2019re gonna be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela. And it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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