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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference as U.S. President Donald Trump listens at Mar-a-Lago club on January 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Florida.Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with— an assertion of U.
S. dominance of the Western Hemisphere — and said his campaign of aggression against Venezuela represented the “Donroe Doctrine” in action. In his unwieldy remarks, Trump called out Colombian President Gustavo Petro by name, accusing him without evidence of “making cocaine and sending it to the “So he does have to watch his ass,” the U.S. president said of Petro, who condemned the Trump administration’s Saturday attack on Venezuela as “aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela andappearance earlier Saturday, Trump also took aim at the United States’ southern neighbor, declaring ominously that “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico,” which also denounced the attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. “She is very frightened of the cartels,” Trump said of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. “So we have to do something.”“If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned, at least a little bit,” Rubio, who was born in Miami to Cuban immigrant parents, said during Saturday’s press conference.“It is the next step in the United States’ campaign of regime change that stretches from Caracas to Havana — and an attack on the very principle of sovereign equality and the prospects for the Zone of Peace once established by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,” the coalition said in a statement. “This renewed declaration of impunity from“Trump has clearly articulated the imperial logic of this intervention — to seize control over Venezuela’s natural resources and reassert U.S. domination over the hemisphere,” said Progressive International. “The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine — applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas — is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today.”will be matched dollar for dollar for a limited time. Your one-time gift today will be matched immediately. Your monthly donation will be matched for the whole first year, doubling your impact. This matching gift comes at a critical time. As Trump attempts to silence dissenting voices and oppositional nonprofits, reader support is our best defense against the right-wing agenda.This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.Our year-end fundraiser is over, but thanks to a generous supporter, your gift can still be matched for a limited time. Your one-time gift will be matched today, and your monthly donation will be matched for the whole first year. Please give if you can!
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