US president says a military operation in Colombia 'sounds good' to him and warns Mexico 'to get their act together'.

Following the attack on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro, the US has been threatening other countries in the region. They have reacted with defiance.

Mexican state oil company Pemex said in a December US stock exchange filing that its Gasolinas Bienestar unit had sent 17,200 bpd of crude and 2,000 bpd of petroleum products to Cuba in the nine months to the end of September — higher than the figure reported by Kpler. Pemex said it complied “with applicable law” on the exports, worth $400mn.

Most worryingly for the U.S.'s fellow NATO allies, Trump doubled down on longstanding threats to annex Greenland, which is part of Danish territory. Danish and Greenlandic officials have repeatedly hit back at the White House's references to controlling the Arctic island.