{"id":2529184,"date":"2026-01-03T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maduro-first-mexico-next-trump-teases-next-possible-military-target-after-capture-of-maduro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:50:09","slug":"maduro-first-mexico-next-trump-teases-next-possible-military-target-after-capture-of-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maduro-first-mexico-next-trump-teases-next-possible-military-target-after-capture-of-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro First, Mexico Next? Trump Teases Next Possible Military Target After Capture of Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaduro-first-mexico-next-trump-teases-next-possible-military-target-after-capture-of-maduro%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2529184&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In recent comments, former president Donald Trump said U.S. military forces, including Delta Force, protected a law-enforcement operation that seized Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife in Caracas and that they would be taken to New York to face charges from a March 2020 indictment, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced. Speaking on Fox &#038; Friends Weekend, trump praised the operation as &#8220;amazing,&#8221; saying there were no U.S. deaths though some personnel and a helicopter were damaged, and he claimed the mission had been delayed four days by weather. He also suggested the U.S. could take action against Mexican drug cartels, saying Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is &#8220;frightened of the cartels&#8221; and repeating his view that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >drug-related deaths tied<\/a> to the border number far higher than official figures. The Mexican government publicly condemned the U.S.military action in Venezuela as a unilateral intervention. The report and statements appeared in coverage by the Daily Caller News Foundation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump hinted Saturday morning that Mexican drug cartels could be the next target of American military action during a phone interview on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>American military forces, including Delta Force, protected a law enforcement operation that arrested Venezuelan President Nicol&aacute;s Maduro and his wife in Caracas early Saturday morning, Trump announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/115830428767897167\">post<\/a> on . &ldquo;Fox and Friends Weekend&rdquo; co-host Charlie Hurt asked if Trump was using the takedown of Maduro to send a message to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. She&rsquo;s not running Mexico, the cartels are running Mexico,&rdquo; Trump said, referring to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. &ldquo;And we can be politically correct and be nice and say&hellip; she&rsquo;s very frightened of the cartels, they&rsquo;re running Mexico. I&rsquo;ve asked her numerous times, would you like us to take out the cartels. &lsquo;No, no, no, Mr. President, no, no, no, please.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, we have to do something because we lost &mdash; the real number is 300,000 people, in my opinion. They like to say 100,000. 100,000 is a lot of people, but the real number is 300,000 people,&rdquo; Trump continued. &ldquo;And we lost them to drugs. And they come in through the southern border, mostly the southern border. Plenty come in through Canada, too, by the way, in case you don&rsquo;t know. But they come in through the southern border, and something&rsquo;s going to have to be done with Mexico.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGPamBondi\/status\/2007428087143686611\">announced<\/a> on X that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, would be taken to New York to be arraigned on charges stemming from a March 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/nicolas-maduro-moros\">indictment<\/a> on drug trafficking and firearms charges. Trump praised American military personnel for carrying out what he called an &ldquo;amazing&rdquo; operation after a four-day delay due to weather.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you, it was just amazing. What was he [Maduro] doing? He was in a very highly guarded, like a fortress, actually. He was in a fortress,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;You know that we had nobody killed, it was amazing. I think we had nobody if killed, I have to say, because a couple of guys were hit, but they came back and they&rsquo;re supposed to be in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-a-terrific-thing-trump-thanks-biden-for-giving-him-some-credit-for-covid-19-vaccines\/\" title=\"\u2018It Was A Terrific Thing\u2019: ... Thanks Biden For Giving Him Some Credit For COVID-19 Vaccines\">pretty good shape<\/a>. But we had nobody killed. We lost no aircraft, everything came back, we got it all back. One of them was hit pretty hard, a helicopter, but we got it back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Claudiashein\/status\/2007424768845185274\">posted<\/a> a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gob.mx\/sre\/prensa\/mexico-condena-intervencion-militar-en-venezuela?state=published\">statement<\/a> by the Mexican government condemning the operation that captured Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Government of Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally in recent hours by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,&rdquo; the statement said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. 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