Puerto Rico’s Republican Governor is calling attention to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s threats of military action against the U.S. Island in response to Donald Trump’s call for U.S. territory expansion.

In a Monday letter to Trump, Gov. Jenniffer González-Colon stated that Maduro’s call for Latin American troops invading Puerto Rico was “an open threat to our nation, national security and the stability of the region.”

Gonzalez-Colon wrote the letter in response to Maduro’s speech in Caracas on Sunday, which closed out the “Global International Antifascist Festival.”

Maduro said, “Simon Bolivar wrote for us an agenda that was liberation-oriented, just as the North has an agenda of colonization.”

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“The liberation of Puerto Rico is imminent, and we’ll achieve it with Brazilian soldiers,” said the Venezuelan who took his third oath last Friday despite widespread allegations that he had rigged July’s presidential election results.

Puerto Ricans have chosen to retain their U.S. Citizenship, which was granted by Congress in 1917, after the U.S. took over the island in 1898, following the Spanish-American War.

Nearly 70 percent of Puerto Rico’s voters participated in a non-binding referendum in November and chose either statehood, or free association, as the preferred status. Both statuses would maintain U.S. citizenry.

The plebiscite did not include an option that would have maintained the current status of citizenship, a choice popular with supporters of a traditional political party on the island.

Maduro’s threats are unlikely to be followed up by military action. However, Trump has threatened to force U.S. Allies to give over control of Greenland or the Panama Canal.

After years of increasing threats from China in Taiwan and in the South China Sea and after three years in which Russia has been waging a war of territorial extension in Ukraine, it is no surprise that the incoming U.S. President will talk about territorial expansion.

Trump also annoyed the United States’ land neighboring countries, Canada and Mexico. He referred to Canada in a seemingly humorous manner as the 51st State and called for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed as the Gulf of America.

Maduro is the only leader in the world who has turned the trend of saber rattling into territorial threats directed at the United States.

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a close ally and vocal opponent of authoritarian governments in Latin America and Gonzalez-Colon, blamed Maduro’s bravado on President Biden’s “weak policy of appeasement” and issued a warning to Maduro.

“… In less than a fortnight, the United States will launch a new policy where freedom and national security are of paramount importance. Diaz-Balart wrote on X that “friends will be treated like friends and enemies as adversaries.”

“Maduro is numbered.” “If the Venezuelan dictator does not wish to be like Mussolini or Gaddafi he must leave Venezuela immediately.”