Trump says Cuba 'something we'll be talking about' after Maduro ouster [View all]
Source: USA Today/Palm Beach Post
Updated Jan. 3, 2026, 6:44 p.m. ET
PALM BEACH — With Nicolás Maduro in U.S. custody and American authorities running Venezuela, which is next? Cuba? Colombia? The Panama Canal?
The Havana regime is in his sights, President Donald Trump said Jan. 3.
"Cuba is going to be something we'll end up talking about, because Cuba is a failing nation right now, very badly failing nation, and we want to help the people," the president said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago a day after a U.S. military operation removed Maduro from Venezuela. "It's very similar in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba, but we want to also help the people that were forced out of Cuba and living in this country."
The president also reiterated aggressive comments toward Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, who last month denigrated the Trump administration as a "clan of pedophiles" citing investigatory files from sex abuser and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/trump/2026/01/03/after-venezuela-raid-has-trump-sets-sight-on-regime-change-in-cuba/88008094007/
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