Donald Trump’s military escalation against drug cartels and potentially the Venezuelan government itself won a prominent backer this weekend, even as members of the U.S. Congress in both parties continue to express skepticism about the administration’s plans in the region.
María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader who recently fled the country in disguise to collect a Nobel Peace Prize in Europe, appeared Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation and spoke in support of the president’s efforts. In recent months, the U.S. has killed at least 80 people in a continued pattern of military strikes targeting small vessels operating in the Caribbean Sea, which American officials have claimed are ferrying drugs, mostly cocaine, from Venezuela.
