Rep. Matt Gaetz

I don't believe that the future of Latin America is one that will be guided by the

the ideology of Maduro, whether or not he is on the next thing smoking to Russia or China or Turkey is probably yet to be seen.

But he's feeling more pressure.

He's having to make more decisions.

He's weaker.

We're stronger.

And so is the alliance for the populist right in Latin America.

I actually think one of the most likely scenarios here is Maduro's departure.

He takes some of the billions he's stolen.

He goes to a friendly place and, you know, continues rotating between great Turkish food and his Ozempic shots.

But I think that what I'm watching is how these circumstances in Venezuela influence the rest of the political dynamic in Latin America.

I actually don't want to see Central America go toward the leftists who want to see borders eroded, who want to inject all kind of wokeism into their societies, and who want to be open for business for the Chinese bribers or the narco-terrorists

who would want to use this as a launching ground for the unrestricted warfare that is being waged against the United States.

That's what's important to me.

We think about Colombia, Steve.

That's a country America put a lot of money into in Plan Colombia.

It was the shining example of how cooperation with our country could work.

Right now, Colombia is being run by a drug-addled fool

whose own foreign minister had to resign because the president of Colombia was coked up for two days in Paris and nobody could find him.

So that's an example of drift the wrong direction.