Donald Trump has warned Venezuela's new leader Delcy Rodríguez she could "pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro" if she "doesn't do what's right". His comments to US magazine The Atlantic came as the country's deposed president Nicolás Maduro was set to appear in a New York court on Monday. That's not a war against Venezuela," Rubio told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday morning. When asked why congressional authorisation wasn't sought before the US operation in Venezuela, Rubio told ABC it "wasn't necessary because this wasn't an invasion". House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the secretive military operation, which was conducted without approval from Congress, "was not simply a narcotics operation".

Source: Daily Nation January 05, 2026 09:10 UTC