The President of the United States, Donald Trump, assured that his country will begin to execute land attacks against drug cartels. "We have annihilated 97% of the drugs that entered by sea and now we are going to start hitting on land with respect to the cartels," Trump declared in an interview with Fox News. Trump previously dismissed the option of working with Machado, saying that "she has no internal support or respect within the country." Meanwhile, he once again ruled out the possibility of elections in the oil-rich South American country in the near future. Previously, the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, acknowledged that part of his job now is "to try to ensure that Venezuela is stable" and to guarantee that the Venezuelan government in power "really listens to the United States and does what the United States needs it to do under the interest of our country." "We are going to win thousands and millions of dollars in oil," he confessed and added: "They will be billions of dollars, but we are going to stay there until we straighten out the country." Trump also expressed his hope that US oil companies will contribute to rebuilding the oil industry in Venezuela. According to journalistic information, the White House is trying to expand a meeting with oil executives, scheduled for this Friday, amid the skepticism of major oil companies. Trump revealed that he expects to "say hello" to the Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, who is expected to arrive in Washington next week. "The cartels are governing Mexico," he added, without offering further details about the plans in a Xinhua report to which the Noticias Argentina Agency had access. His statements come after a military operation of several months against vessels allegedly linked to drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea, as well as the incursion last Saturday to kidnap the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife. The couple was subsequently transferred to New York to face what Washington described as "drug trafficking" and other federal charges. During the interview, Trump noted that the United States would make a large sum of money by selling Venezuelan oil.
