Republican Senator Rick Scott, an ally of President Donald Trump in the United States Congress, stated this Wednesday (7) that American military action in Venezuela marks the beginning of a broader process of political changes in Latin America. In an interview with the broadcaster Fox BusinessScott declared that Cuba and Nicaragua should be Washington’s next targets.
According to the senator, the US operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro represents a regional inflection point.
“What they did in Venezuela will change Latin America,” said Scott. “This is the beginning of change in Venezuela. Afterwards, we will change Cuba. Nicaragua will also change,” he said.
Scott also mentioned Colombia when dealing with the regional scenario and stated that “next year we will have a new president in the country”, when including the Colombian case in what he described as a process of resumption of democracies in the hemisphere.
This Wednesday, the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, said he was “very disappointed” with the responses received from the Trump administration when questioning whether Washington plans to carry out military operations in other Latin American countries, such as Cuba and Colombia. Schumer reported that the topic was discussed in an information session on Capitol Hill with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, after the mission that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. The White House’s position indicates that the US does not completely rule out operations in Cuba, Colombia or Nicaragua.
