Trump Does Not Want to Occupy Venezuela, US Tells UN Meeting (1)

The Trump administration does not want to occupy Venezuela, Washington’s envoy to the United Nations said on Monday, as the US faced intense criticism at a meeting to discuss the stunning special forces raid that captured Nicolas Maduro.

“We are not occupying a country, this was a law enforcement operation,” US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltztold an emergency meeting of the Security Council called to discuss the situation in Venezuela.

Waltz defended the US raid, arguing that Maduro was the head of a narco-terrorist group that floods the US with drugs and profited ...