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TheProle

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Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:57 PM Jan 16

Puerto Rico asks Trump for help after Venezuela's Maduro threatens invasion

Puerto Rico’s new Republican governor is drawing attention to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s military threats against the U.S. island in the wake of President-elect Trump’s calls for U.S. territorial expansion.

In a letter to Trump dated Monday, Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón said Maduro’s plea for Latin American troops to invade Puerto Rico “is an open threat to the United States, our national security and stability in the region.”

González-Colón’s letter was in response to a Maduro speech on Sunday in Caracas, closing the “Global International Antifascist Festival.”

“As in the north they have an agenda of colonization, we have an agenda of liberation, and that agenda was written for us by Simón Bolívar,” said Maduro.


https://thehill.com/latino/5085427-puerto-rico-trump-venezuela-maduro-gonzalez-colon-greenland-panama-canal/
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Puerto Rico asks Trump for help after Venezuela's Maduro threatens invasion (Original Post) TheProle Jan 16 OP
He'll send them all the paper towels they need. Ocelot II Jan 16 #1
So, like Trump, boonecreek Jan 16 #2
Puerto Rico elected a repub? Blue_Tires Jan 16 #3

boonecreek

(402 posts)
2. So, like Trump,
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:50 PM
Jan 16

Maduro wants someone else to do the dirty work.
Has Brazil been consulted about committing an
act of war against the US.? Of course, there's always
the possibility that Trump would just let them have it.

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