“We are going to have our big oil companies, the biggest in the world, entering Venezuela”: Trump does not hide the real objective of the operation against Maduro

The American president says that the action against the Venezuelan regime was something never seen “since the Second World War”. Donald Trump also praised the American military responsible for the intervention. “If they had seen what I saw last night, they would have been very impressed.”

Donald Trump was clear about the real ambitions of the US in Venezuela after the military intervention against Nicolás Maduro and his regime, which saw the Venezuelan president captured, along with his wife, and taken to American soil to face trial.

We are going to have our big oil companies, the biggest in the world, coming in [na Venezuela] and spend billions of dollars, repair the bad and degraded oil infrastructure and start making money for the country”, said the US president at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago this Saturday.

“The oil business in Venezuela has been a failure, a total failure for a long period. They were extracting almost nothing compared to what they could,” he added.

Despite this, Trump maintained the embargo on Venezuelan oil. “Very importantly, the embargo on all Venezuelan oil remains in full force. The U.S. Navy remains deployed and the United States maintains all military options until U.S. demands are fully met and fully satisfied,” the president said.

Trump also issued a direct warning to leaders associated with Maduro.

“All political and military figures in Venezuela must understand that what happened to Maduro can happen to them, and will happen to them if they are not fair, even to their people.”

“If they had seen what I saw last night, they would have been very impressed.”

In a long statement in which he praised the soldiers who carried out the operation, Donald Trump said that this intervention was something “that had not been seen since the Second World War”.

“No nation in the world could achieve what the US achieved yesterday, frankly, in a short period of time. All Venezuelan military capabilities were neutralized,” continued the American leader. “The men and women of our Armed Forces, together with American authorities, successfully captured Maduro in the middle of the night. It was dark, many lights in Caracas were turned off due to a certain level of knowledge that we have. It was dark.”

The American president also said that the South American country’s forces “were already waiting” for the American military. “They knew we had a lot of ships at sea waiting. They were in what’s called a prepared position, but they were completely overwhelmed, very quickly incapacitated. If they had seen what I saw last night, they would have been very impressed.”

Trump was also quite transparent in admitting that the US “will rule the country up to a certain point” in time.

“We don’t want to be involved with someone who comes and could lead to a situation like we’ve had for a long period of years. (…) We want peace, freedom and justice for the great people of Venezuela,” said Trump, who even spoke of the possibility of carrying out a second attack against the Maduro regime.

“We were prepared to do a second wave if necessary — in fact, we assumed a second wave would be necessary, but now it probably isn’t,” Trump said. “The first wave, if we want to call it that, the first attack was so successful that we probably don’t have to do a second wave, but we are prepared to do a second wave, a much bigger wave, in fact.”

Trump said the withdrawal of Maduro, who will “face the full power of American justice and stand trial on American soil,” marked a turning point for the country.

“The dictator and terrorist Maduro has finally left Venezuela. The people are free. They are free again. It’s been a long road for them, but they are free.”