The United States is not talking about regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Friday, as the United States ordered an additional 10 stealth fighter jets to a military buildup in the Caribbean.
Trump is reportedly considering carrying out military strikes inside Venezuela to hit drug cartel targets and destabilize dictator Nicolas Maduro’s grip on the South American country.
Trump, 79, has not yet decided whether to order strikes on the mainland, but Tuesday’s sinking of a drug smuggling boat linked to Venezuelan narco-terrorists is just the start of a larger campaign aimed at eradicating drug cartels and forcing Maduro out of office, multiple sources told CNN Friday.
“The preferred course of action is for Maduro to leave on his own, to read the tea leaves,” a source with knowledge of the Trump administration’s plans told the outlet. “And then I think the message is ‘Do you want it to be easy or do you want it to be hard?’”
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