Trump suggests Venezuela could become ’51st state’

United States President Donald Trump said the US had a “great relationship with Venezuela” and that “billions and billions of dollars” were being invested in it by “the biggest oil companies, many of which come from Texas,” while addressing Texans at a midterm campaign rally.

Trump said: “It will become a prosperous country and, who knows, maybe someday soon it will become a prosperous 51st state.”

“You know … they have a lot of oil,” he added.

In January the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during a military raid known as Operation Absolute Resolve.

Maduro’s deputy Delcy Rodriguez was appointed acting and interim president days later.

Maduro and Flores will face trial in New York next June on charges including narco-terrorism and weapons offences.

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