The United States will remain in Venezuela until a peaceful transition can occur.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, US President Donald Trump laid out the plans for the country, following the capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife earlier in the day.
President Trump said the United States wants peace, liberty and justice for the people of Venezuela, and that this includes many Venezuelans living in the United States who want to return to their homeland.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition and it has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about. We can’t take a chance if somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind.”
President Trump also said that US companies will go into Venezuela.
“As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust for a long period of time. They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been pumping and what could have taken place. 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.”
The US President said that they are also prepared to take more action if needed: “We are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so. So we were prepared to do a second wave if we needed to do so. We actually assumed that a second wave would be necessary, but now it’s probably not. The first wave, if you’d like to call it that, the first attack was so successful, we probably don’t have to do a second, but we’re prepared to do a second wave, a much bigger wave, actually.”