Francesca Chambers

that part of the reason that they took the action they did in Venezuela was to try and bring about that eventual outcome in Cuba.

Well, the president has said that he called off a potential second strike on Venezuela after he determined that the country was cooperating with the United States and released some political prisoners.

But it still remains on the table.

I mean, there's still a U.S.

military buildup in the Caribbean.

And the experts that I've spoken to have said that that's a thing that they're watching here is,

If the U.S.

remains in the area, then that makes it a whole heck of a lot easier to carry out another strike on Venezuela in the future, which could be on the table because the president has said that if Delcy Rodriguez, the interim president, doesn't cooperate, that she could be paying a much bigger price than Maduro.

Now, as far as the oil goes, the United States says that it has already intercepted and quarantined the embargoed oil.

It's going to be putting it on the market.

It says that 30 to 50 million barrels have already been intercepted by the United States.

And they're starting to lay out what that will look like in terms of who the money will go to.

That money, they say, will first go to paying back American companies that had had their

businesses in Venezuela nationalized, and then it will go in some shape or form to the Venezuelan people.

But we're still waiting to find out all the details of how exactly those things are going to work.

Yes, so Colombia is another one that the president has suggested was on his target list.

He had said that Gustavo Petro, the country's president, was a sick man, and he said it was a sick country.

Now, Petro notably...

is due to leave office this summer.

He is constitutionally barred from seeking another consecutive term.