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Venezuela to become 51st US State! President Donald Trump has once again suggested that his administration will try to annex Venezuela, telling Fox News that he is seriously considering a move to make the South American nation the 51st U.S. state.
The president has repeatedly threatened to annex several sovereign nations and territories or use military force to control them, including Canada, Greenland, Panama and Cuba. But his latest comments follow a lethal military operation to arrest Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, while working alongside oil companies to seize oil infrastructure.
Trump is now “seriously considering a move to make Venezuela the 51st state,” according to John Roberts, co-anchor of America Reports on Fox News, who spoke to the president Monday.
Following Maduro’s capture in January, White House officials have shuttled back and forth to Caracas to broker deals with U.S. energy and mining companies while trying to forge closer ties to interim President Delcy Rodríguez and her administration — talks that have accelerated as the U.S. war with Iran threatens global energy supplies.
Trump — who cannot legally declare Venezuela the 51st state without congressional approval or Venezuela’s consent — has not ruled out military intervention when it comes to his imperial ambitions to occupy Greenland. When it comes to Venezuela, the U.S. has already built up one of the largest naval fleets in the Caribbean in decadesl