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Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro will appear in a New York City courtroom on Monday after his capture by the US military in an attack that killed at least 32 Cubans. He is facing drug and weapons charges.
President Donald Trump has said America is “in charge” as acting Venezuela president Delcy Rodríguez called for “cooperation” with the US — a softening in her response to the attack.
The US is working to establish a pliant interim government in Venezuela, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the focus is on setting policy and maintaining “leverage.”
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Trump implied that he could take military action in Colombia, told Mexico to get its “act together” on drugs, and said the US “needs Greenland” but Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, has urged Washington to stop threatening a “historically close ally,” after Trump suggested Copenhagen cannot properly manage and protect the island from Russian and Chinese threats. Greenland is an autonomous territory within Denmark.
“We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense,” Trump told The Atlantic on Sunday, noting that it was up to others to decide the wider implications of US military action in Venezuela.
In response, Frederiksen said “the US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish Kingdom.”
“I would therefore strongly urge the US to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale,” she told the media. – CNN/rt.com
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