The US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has just been speaking at the UN Security Council meeting.
He says Nicolas Maduro is “not just an indicted drug trafficker” but also an “illegitimate so-called president” who wasn’t a head of state.
“If the UN and the United Nations in this body confers legitimacy on an illegitimate narco-terrorist, and the same treatment in this charter of a democratically elected president or head of state, what kind of organisation is this?” Waltz says.
Addressing Donald Trump’s role in Maduro’s capture over the weekend, he says: In this case, you have a drug kingpin, an illegitimate leader indicted in the United States coordinating with the likes of China, Russia, Iran, terrorist groups like Hezbollah, pumping drugs, thugs, and weapons into the United States of America, threatening to invade its neighbors…Was President Trump just going to let that status quo continue? Absolutely not. He gave diplomacy a chance. He gave Maduro a chance, but he took decisive action in the interests of the United States,” he added.
Waltz’s remarks came on the heels of the Trump administration’s successful operation to capture Maduro on Saturday, a move that drew mixed reactions as Democrats and Republicans debated legality concerns and the South American country’s political future.
