The message seemed designed to reach Washington as one administration prepares to hand the baton to the next: If the United States keeps messing with Venezuela, then Caracas will retaliate by “liberating” the US territory of Puerto Rico,

Puerto Rico governor Jenniffer González Colón called Maduro's comments an "open threat to the United States and our national security."

After Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s call for Puerto Rico’s “liberation” from US control, Puerto Rico’s governor has appealed to President-elect Trump for immediate action.

Puerto Rico’s governor informed President-elect Donald Trump on Monday that she is ready to work with him on responding to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “open threat” to invade the ...

It was Granholm’s last official visit to the island as many worry what kind of resources and funding Puerto Rico’s crumbling power grid might receive under President-elect Donald Trump ...

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The governor of Puerto Rico has called on President-elect Donald Trump to respond after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatened to invade the U.S. territory. According to Jenniffer González-Colón,

Then there’s the matter of his authoritarian socialist state – on the far side of the ideological spectrum from Trump’s rightwing MAGA movement. The governor of Puerto Rico Jenniffer ...

It was Granholm’s last official visit to the island as many worry what kind of resources and funding Puerto Rico’s crumbling power grid might receive under President-elect Donald Trump, who chose a fossil fuels executive as his energy secretary.

The governor of Puerto Rico Jenniffer Gonzalez swiftly denounced ... imposed by the US during the first term of President Donald Trump, in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2019. - Ariana Cubillos/AP ...

Donald Trump’s first inaugural address is often referred to by political commentators as the “American Carnage” speech. Instead of presenting an optimistic vision of what he wanted to do as president, Trump used dark (and at time misleading) rhetoric that would set the tone for his first term.