Photos from Cuba, Colombia and Mexico as Trump singles them out after US strike on Venezuela

Cuban, Colombians and Mexicans are going about their everyday routines as U.S. President Donald Trump warns these countries to fall in line after the U.S. military raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Trump's administration is messaging to the world that American preeminence in the hemisphere is here, and that Maduro’s capture is an example of why its neighbors should comply with U.S. demands.

Read more on Trump's most recent comments singling out Cuba, Colombia and Mexico.

This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

People walk amid decorative illumination at Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, late Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A child sits with their free gift at an event celebrating Three Kings Day, at the Angel of Independence in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

People protest outside the U.S. Embassy against the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Revelers rest prior to the start of the Black and White Carnival, recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage, in Pasto, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Revelers take part in the Black and White Carnival, recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage, in Pasto, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

People cross the Colombian-Venezuelan border, to Villa del Rosario, Colombia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, two days after U.S. forces captured and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

People cross the Colombian-Venezuelan border, in Villa del Rosario, Colombia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, two days after U.S. forces captured and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Colombian soldiers guard the border with Venezuela in Villa del Rosario, Colombia, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that President Nicolás Maduro had been captured by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Colombia's ambassador to the U.N. Leonor Zalabata addresses the Security Council Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

A bicycle taxi traverses a road at night in Havana, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A man traverses a street in Old Havana, Monday, January 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel attends a rally in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in solidarity with Venezuela after the U.S. captured President Nicolas Maduro and flew him out of Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A child hangs on chains while customers shop at a street stall in Old Havana, Monday, January 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A woman gestures next to a classic American car in Old Havana, Monday, January 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A mosquito control worker fumigates a home where a television plays a government television news report concerning the U.S. forces' capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, in Old Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Workers fly the Cuban flag at half-mast at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune near the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in memory of Cubans who died two days before in Caracas, Venezuela during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state must stand up to Republican President Donald Trump 's “assault on our values,” warning democracy is at stake in his final State of the State address Thursday.

The Democratic is eyeing a presidential run in 2028 and is conscious of his legacy as he nears the end of eight years governing the nation’s most populous state. In his speech, he highlighted California’s work fighting homelessness and high health care costs. He pointed out the state has sued the Trump administration more than 50 times.

“The federal government, respectfully, it’s unrecognizable, protecting the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable," the Democrat said to lawmakers at the state Capitol in Sacramento. "Their credo seems to be about fear — fear of the future, fear of the stranger, fear of change.”

He chided the Trump administration's “carnival of chaos on the national stage," and its efforts over the past year to withhold food aid from states, send the National Guard into Democratic-led cities, and cut funding for medical research.

California, by contrast, should be seen as a blueprint for the rest of the nation as it defends the state's progressive policies against federal government overreach, Newsom said.

Over the years, Newsom has used the annual address to tout California’s economic growth and technological innovation and push back against critiques of its high cost of living and having the largest homeless population in the country. This year, he derided critics as suffering from “California Derangement Syndrome,” a reference to Trump’s use of the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome" to call out his political opponents.

Newsom's speech comes a day after the state marked a year since the devastating Los Angeles-area fires erupted, ripping through neighborhoods and killing 31 people.

In the months since, Newsom has asked Congress and Trump for billions of dollars in funding to help the region recover from the blazes, some of the most destructive in state history. Trump has not answered that call — one of the many disputes between him and the governor during his first year back in the presidency.

The two have sparred over everything from Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in L.A. to the federal government's blocking of California's first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

The speech comes a day before he's set to unveil his proposed budget for the next fiscal year after years facing budget shortfalls.

Newsom has spent the past seven years trying to solve some of California’s most relentless issues, including the impacts of climate change, the state’s homelessness crisis, and its high gas and utility prices.

The governor will announce that unsheltered homelessness in California dropped 9% last year, according to a preview from his office, which didn’t immediately provide the data to back up the decrease.

He will highlight the state’s cleanup work from the L.A.-area fires and its push to provide mortgage relief to survivors, while noting “we need to turbo-charge our efforts” to rebuild communities.

He previously requested that Trump send the state nearly $34 billion in disaster aid to recover from the fires. He’ll criticize Trump for refusing to meet that ask.

In the speech, the governor called on on the state to go after large investors buying up affordable homes, saying the practice is “putting pressure on rents and crushing dreams of homeownership.”

Newsom plans to celebrate homicide rates being at their lowest in decades in Oakland and San Francisco. He’ll cite the $267 million in funding the state sent to law enforcement agencies across the state in 2023 to help them fight retail and property crime. He’ll tout the California Highway Patrol’s work to curb crime in Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Stockton and other cities.

This is the first time Newsom has delivered the State of the State to lawmakers in person since 2022. He has said he does not like formal speeches because his dyslexia makes it difficult to read from a teleprompter live.

Instead he has submitted a written address to lawmakers in the years since, fulfilling a constitutional requirement that he report to the Legislature in some form.

He also tried other approaches that have departed from tradition, including posting a prerecorded speech online and touring the state to announce policies aimed at tackling homelessness and mental health crises.

Under the state constitution, Newsom is barred from seeking a third term.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrives for his State of the State address Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, takes part in a moment of silence for the victim of a fatal shooting involving federal law enforcement agents in Minnesota, alongside California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, right, before his State of the State address Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during his State of the State address Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrives for his State of the State address Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom walks through the venue for the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)