The arrest of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife by US President Trump continues to unfold, and now the Pizza Index is issuing another warning! According to the latest midday post from Pentagon Pizza Watch, which tracks pizza shop prices near the Pentagon and uses open-source intelligence to inform market predictions:
Papa John's Pizza, located 2.3 miles from the Pentagon, saw a 1250% increase in customer traffic. A pizza shop located 1 mile from the Pentagon also reported a 313% increase in customer traffic. The area is now on Level 3 alert.
Just earlier, Trump warned the Colombian president at a press conference to be careful, while also hinting that Cuba might face stronger pressure from the United States...
"He's manufacturing cocaine and shipping it into the United States, so he'd better be careful."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accompanying Trump at a press conference, also said, "If I were a government official living in Havana (the capital of Cuba), I would at least feel some concern."
This statement follows the trajectory of the US military's arrest of Maduro in Venezuela, indicating that the Trump administration is attempting to consolidate its Latin American policies through a high-pressure strategy. Analysts believe that Trump may use high-decibel threats to force Colombia to make concessions on the drug issue, but the likelihood of actual military action remains to be seen.
