On the 12th, U.S. President Trump posted a map on his social media platform 'Truth Social', with neighboring Venezuela depicted in the pattern of the American flag and labeled as the '51st state'.
On the 11th, Trump stated in an interview with Fox News that he is considering turning Venezuela into a new state. For the past few months, he has been boasting about his control over Venezuela.
However, Venezuela's interim President Rodriguez denied on the 11th, in a media interview, that Venezuela would become the '51st state' of the United States.
That day, after attending activities related to the territorial dispute over the Essequibo region at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, she told Venezuelan media: 'This is simply not under consideration, and it will never become reality, because the Venezuelan people have always cherished national independence.'