Venezuela provides live updates as Maduro faces US court and Trump threatens other countries

Following the action in Venezuela, the Trump administration is hinting at possible actions elsewhere in the region.

In his remarks aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening, Mr. Trump mentioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro, saying that Colombia was “very sick too, led by a very sick man.”

Mr. Trump said he thought Petro “wouldn’t do it for a very long time,” and when asked if he would also conduct a military operation there, the president said: “Sounds good to me.”

Earlier today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stark new warning to the Cuban government, a longtime adversary of the United States and one of Venezuela’s most important allies and trading partners. Rubio, during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said he thinks “they have a lot of problems.”

“I’m not going to talk to you about what our next steps and policies will be in this regard,” Rubio said. “But I don’t think it’s a mystery that we’re not big fans of the Cuban regime, which, by the way, is the one that supported Maduro.”

He said Cuban officials were with Maduro in Venezuela before his capture.

“It was the Cubans guarding Maduro,” Rubio said. “He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards,” adding that the Cuban bodyguards were also responsible for “internal intelligence” within Maduro’s government.

The Cuban government said Sunday that 32 Cubans were killed during the U.S. military operation to capture Maduro.

Mr. Trump said Cuba’s economy, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, is in tatters and will slide further now with the ouster of Maduro, who provided subsidized oil to the Caribbean island.

“It’s going down,” Mr. Trump said of Cuba. “It’s going to go down for the count.”

-CBS/AP