Governor asks Trump to have PR’s back after Maduro’s invasion threat

It seems that the threat of an invasion of Puerto Rico made by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being taken seriously by Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.

The governor has urged President-elect Donald Trump to take action after Maduro threatened, rhetorically it would seem, to invade the U.S. island territory using another South American country’s military. In a letter addressed to Trump, González Colón stated, “[J]ust a few days after holding an illegitimate swearing-in ceremony in a desperate attempt to cling to power in Venezuela,” Maduro “publicly proposed an invasion of Puerto Rico,” according to a Fox News report.

Maduro, who was recently sworn in for a third six-year presidential term despite international condemnation of his recent reelection as illegitimate, made the threat last weekend during the “International Anti-Fascist Festival” in Caracas. He referenced Trump’s comments about U.S. interests in the Panama Canal and Greenland, saying, “Just as the North has an agenda of colonization, we have an agenda of liberation.”