Trump Says US Needs ‘Total Access’ to Post-Maduro Venezuela

President Donald Trump said the US needs “total access” to Venezuela as questions mount about the country’s leadership following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.

“We need total access. We need access to oil and to other things in their country that will allow us to rebuild their country,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One Sunday as he returned to Washington from spending the holidays at his Palm Beach estate.

With Maduro facing drug, weapons and terrorism charges in New York City after his weekend capture, Trump said that US oil companies will spend billions of dollars to ...