Donald Trump said that “crime in Venezuela is going down because they took out their criminals and handed them over to us through an open border policy of the previous administration”
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Monday, January 20, while signing his first executive orders, that they do not need Venezuela’s oil and that they will stop buying from it. He also stated: “We are looking at Venezuela with great interest.”
«Let’s see what happens with Venezuela. It is a country that I know very well for many reasons and it was a wonderful country 20 years ago and now it is a disaster,” said the American president on the day of his inauguration.
When asked by a journalist whether he was still committed to Maduro leaving power, Trump specifically responded: “We’re going to find out, too, because we’re probably going to stop buying oil from Venezuela. “We don’t need it.”
BREAKING NEWS | President Trump on Venezuela: «Let’s see what happens with Venezuela. “We are watching Venezuela very carefully.”
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The president suggested that he could apply another embargo as he did in his first term because, he insisted, the United States has more than enough oil: “That would change Venezuela a lot,” he said.
For his part, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, assured in his confirmation hearing for that position that the US should review the licenses that allow the oil company Chevron to operate in Venezuela, because it contributes billions to Maduro’s “regime.”
*Read also: Maduro expects 1.5 million barrels of oil to be produced daily
Earlier, during his speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, Trump also referred to Venezuelan migration, one of the main ones that has arrived in the United States irregularly in recent years, and affirmed, as he has said on previous occasions, , that “crime in Venezuela is going down because they took out their criminals and handed them over to us through an open border policy of the previous administration.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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