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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Trump on his “bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice.”
In a statement posted on his X account, the Israeli leader added “I salute your decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers.”
Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice. I salute your decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers.
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) January 3, 2026
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, said he called Trump directly following the president’s press conference Saturday “to register my opposition to this act.”
Mamdani declined to say whether he had spoken to Trump about Maduro’s possible arrival in New York.
Mamdani said his stance was based on “being opposed to a pursuit of regime change to the violation of federal, international law.”
Mamdani said his role as mayor was to ensure that the federal government’s plans for Maduro had “minimal impact on the day to day lives of New Yorkers.”
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The U.N. Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on U.S. operations in Venezuela on Monday at 10 a.m.. That’s according to a council diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a meeting that has not yet been made public.
The development comes after an emergency request by Colombia and support from China & Russia.
Colombia, which began its two-year term on the council on Friday, had also requested that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres join in briefing the council on the developments. The 15-member council has been surprisingly inactive on the issue of Venezuela for the last several months, even as U.S. posturing and boat strikes in the Caribbean increased.
Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, the Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, reacts during an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting regarding the situation in Venezuela on December 23, 2025 at UN headquarters in New York City.Spencer Platt/GettyAssociated Press
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said discussions about the “evolving situation” in Venezuela will take place with U.S. counterparts in the coming days and that his government will “shed no tears” about the end of Nicolas Maduro’s regime.
“We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate president and we shed no tears about the end of his regime,” Starmer said in a statement.Starmer, who reiterated his support for international law, said the U.K. will “seek a safe and peaceful transition to a legitimate government that reflects the will of the Venezuelan people.”
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Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country Saturday, President Donald Trump said the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations.
The dramatic action capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on the South American country and its autocratic leader and months of secret planning resulting in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Speaking to reporters hours after Maduro’s capture, Trump revealed his plans to exploit the leadership void to “fix” the country’s oil infrastructure and sell “large amounts” of oil to other countries.
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Trump described Maduro as being “highly guarded” in a presidential palace that was “a heavily fortified military fortress in the heart of Caracas.” Maduro had nearly made it to a safe room inside it, Trump told reporters, although “he was unable to close it.”
In an interview earlier Saturday morning on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Trump said that American forces were armed with “massive blowtorches,” which they would have used to cut through steel walls had Maduro locked himself in the room.
“It had what they call a safety space, where it’s solid steel all around,” Trump told Fox. “He didn’t get that space closed. He was trying to get into it, but he got bum-rushed right so fast that he didn’t get into that. We were prepared.”
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In a televised address to the nation that lasted less than 15 minutes, Delcy Rodríguez left open the door for dialogue with the U.S. while also seeking to calm ruling party supporters.
“Here, we have a government with clarity, and I repeat and repeat again … we are willing to have respectful relations,” she said, referring to the Trump administration. “It is the only thing we will accept for a type of relationship after having attacked (Venezuela).”
By the Associated Press
The vice president’s office said Vance was in Florida on Friday, where he quietly met during the day with the president at his golf club in West Palm Beach to discuss the impending strikes.
But he did not join Trump and other top administration officials at Mar-a-Lago to watch the operation because the national security team was concerned about the vice president’s motorcade potentially tipping off the Venezuelans to the impending action.
Vance instead watched the operation unfold via secure video conference and then flew to his home in Cincinnati after the operation concluded. His office said he was “deeply integrated in the process and planning.”
Vance’s office said that due “to increased security concerns, the Administration has aimed to limit the frequency and duration of the Vice President and President being co-located away from the White House.”
By the Associated Press
Yanire Lucas, a Caracas resident whose house sits pressed up next to a Venezuelan military base that was struck overnight, said she began to hear explosions next to her house around 1:50 in the morning.
Lucas said the terrified family took shelter when the first explosion shook their home. She walked through shattered glass and other debris lining the floor of her apartment, and past broken doors and window frames on Saturday morning.
Lucas said that she hasn’t seen anything like it, even after years of turmoil roiling Venezuela. Now, her family like many others in the South American nation are wracked with a feeling of uncertainty.
Lucas said she was scared to even leave the house. “What is happening is unprecedented,” Lucas said. “We’re still on edge, and now we’re uncertain about what to do. Stay safe at home, go out to look for food? I don’t know.”
By the Associated Press
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hinting that Cuba could be the next target of the Trump administration’s push to restore American dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
Rubio said he would be a bit concerned if he were a Cuban government official following the overnight U.S. military operation in Venezuela that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
“If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit,” said Rubio, who has had a long preoccupation with both Venezuela and Cuba.
The U.S. has had a long history of military interventions in Latin America, including its tacit support for the unsuccessful 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion led by Cuban exiles aimed at toppling Fidel Castro.
By the Associated Press
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the attack on Venezuela as criminal and warned that Latin America is not the “backyard” where the United States does as it pleases.
“Its attack on Venezuela shatters the stability that has characterized our region for years,” the president said during a rally that drew thousands of people in Havana. “The attack in the early morning hours against a peaceful and noble people can only be described as cowardly, criminal, and treacherous.” He also demanded proof of life for Maduro.
According to the Cuban leader, the attack is not intended to end drug trafficking — for which no evidence implicating Maduro was presented — but rather to seize Venezuela’s oil and natural resources through an act of “state terrorism,” which he likened to the Israeli attack on Gaza.
The rally in Havana took place at the so-called Anti-Imperialist Tribune, located across from the U.S. Embassy.
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel at the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro in July.Eraldo Peres/Associated PressBy the Associated Press
The vice president posted two messages on social media earlier Saturday congratulating the special operations forces involved in Venezuela and defending the operation against criticisms it was illegal.
But his absence with other officials in Florida on Saturday was notable because Vance has been one of the strongest voices in the administration for one of the president’s doctrines, an “America First” outlook that is skeptical of foreign entanglements.
Vance, who served in the Marine Corps during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, has been critical of past U.S. democracy-building efforts in that country. Last year, he told a group of military academy graduates that the U.S. under Trump would avoid “open-ended conflicts” of the past.
Vance’s office did not respond to repeated queries on Saturday about his location.
By the Associated Press
The Senate Democratic leader said, “The idea that Trump plans to now run Venezuela should strike fear in the hearts of all Americans.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said the Trump administration had assured him multiple times it was not pursuing regime change or taking military action in Venezuela.
“Clearly, they are not being straight with Americans,” he said.
By the Associated Press
The State Department did not immediately respond to questions about how the U.S, would run Venezuela, what authority it would use to administer it or whether it would involve any American personnel — either civilian or military — on the ground in Caracas or other areas of Venezuela.
By the Associated Press
Trump ended his news conference on Maduro’s capture after about an hour of statements and an extended question-and-answer session.
By the Associated Press
The president vowed to fix Venezuela’s oil infrastructure and said the U.S. plans to sell it to other countries.
“We’re in the oil business. We’re going to sell it to them,” Trump said during the news conference. The oil companies will pay for the rebuilding of Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, Trump said.
By the Associated Press
When asked what would happen if the U.S. ends up administering Venezuela for years, Trump suggested that the U.S. would use revenues from oil sales to pay for running the country, saying, “The money coming out of the ground is very substantial.”
“We’re going to get reimbursed for everything that we spend,” he said.
By the Associated Press
When asked what would happen if the U.S. ends up administering Venezuela for years, Trump suggested that the U.S. would use revenues from oil sales to pay for running the country, saying, “The money coming out of the ground is very substantial.”
“We’re going to get reimbursed for everything that we spend,” he said.
By the Associated Press
Trump said that the U.S. will be running Venezuela with a “group” and did not rule out the possibility of U.S. troops.
“We’re not afraid of boots on the ground,” Trump said at a news conference detailing the operation of Maduro’s capture. He added: “We’re going to make sure the country is run properly.”
He added the U.S. would fix the oil infrastructure in Venezuela, adding that “we’re going to get the oil flowing.”
By the Associated Press
When asked who would be running Venezuela, Trump said, “the people that are standing right behind me” are going to be running it “for a period of time.”
By the Associated Press
Gen. Dan Caine, the president’s top military advisor, said that more than 150 aircraft from 20 different bases were involved in the surprise, overnight attack on Venezuela that captured President Nicolas Maduro.
Caine said the aircraft included F-22, F-35, and F-18 fighter jets as well as B1 bombers and other support aircraft “as well as numerous remotely piloted drones.”
Caine said that the mission of the aircraft was to provide cover for the helicopters that acted as the “extraction force” with the goal of capturing Maduro and his wife.
“There were multiple self-defense engagements as the force began to withdraw out of Venezuela,” Caine said. He also said that the military chose “the right day to minimize the potential for civilian harm and maximize the element of surprise.”
By the Associated Press
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the helicopters took fire as they closed in on Maduro’s compound.
One of the helicopters was struck by fire but remained flyable, John Caine said. He added that all of the aircraft came home.
By the Associated Press
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, detailed a “meticulously planned” operation that he said had been months in the making, crafted to minimize harm both to Maduro and his wife, as well as civilians. Through the holiday weeks of Christmas and New Year’s, Caine said service members watched and “sat ready” for the order, which the general said could come only once weather conditions improved Friday night.
“Last night the weather broke just enough, clearing a path that only the most skilled aviators in the world could move through,” Caine said, noting that helicopters flew low to the water to enter Venezuela, covered above by protective U.S. aircraft.
President Trump listened as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine spoke at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla.Alex Brandon/Associated PressBy the Associated Press
No airline flights were crossing over Venezuela Saturday, according to FlightRadar24.com. And major airlines canceled hundreds of flights across the eastern Caribbean after the FAA imposed restrictions and warned passengers that the disruptions could continue for days.
Flights to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Aruba and other destinations in the region near Venezuela were cancelled. The airlines are waiving change fees for passengers who have to reschedule their flights this weekend.
By the Associated Press
The defense secretary likened the attack on Venezuela to the U.S. strikes on Iran last summer over that country’s nuclear program, saying that, “Maduro had his chance, just like Iran had their chance.”
He said adversaries of the U.S. should “remain on notice” that “America can project our will anywhere, anytime.”
“Welcome to 2026, and under President Trump, America is back,” he said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla.Alex Brandon/Associated PressBy the Associated Press
Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that boats have been carrying drugs into the U.S. from Venezuela. But in fact Venezuela is not a major source of drugs.
There is no evidence to suggest fentanyl comes from Venezuela. Rather, the vast majority of fentanyl that flows into the U.S. is transported in through Mexico, and often produced from precursor chemicals coming from Asia.
While a number of illegal armed groups are present in Venezuela, much of the cocaine flowing out from Venezuela is produced in Colombia and other Andean nations. The Caribbean is often used as a jumping-off point for drug traffickers to smuggle their product to European markets.
By the Associated Press
The president brought up the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, formulated by President James Monroe, which was used to justify U.S. military interventions in Latin America.
Trump added his name to it, calling it “The Don-Roe Doctrine” and said, “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
By the Associated Press
Across the Venezuelan capital, there were no signs that the U.S. had taken over control of Venezuela’s government or military forces. The Miraflores Palace and military bases remained guarded by Venezuela’s armed forces.
Supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro with a national flag and a portrait of him, gather in the streets of Caracas on Saturday after US forces captured him.FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images
A supporter of Nicolas Maduro holds a sign that read in spanish “Queremos Nuestro Presidente y Cilita” (we want our president and Cilia) during a gathering near Miraflores palace after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in the early hours on Saturday in Caracas, Venezuela. Jesus Vargas/GettyBy the Associated Press
Trump said the U.S. planned to run Venezuela until a transition of power can take place, and he claimed the American presence was already in place.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said at a news conference where he boasted that “no nation in the world could achieve what America achieved.”
By the Associated Press
The president said the operation carried out by U.S. forces was an “assault like people have not seen since World War II” and that no other nation “could achieve what America achieved yesterday.”
“This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history,” Trump said.
By the Associated Press
Nearly 40 minutes after its scheduled 11 a.m. ET start time, Trump’s press conference is underway.
Accompanying the U.S. president are Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon chief; Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Stephen Miller, a top White House aide overseeing homeland security matters.
President Trump spoke at his Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla.Alex Brandon/Associated PressBy the Associated Press
The president posted a photo on social media showing Maduro wearing a sweatsuit and a blindfold with the caption: “Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima.”
Maduro appeared to be wearing a flotation device around his neck. Next to him was someone wearing a jacket that had a DEA logo.Maduro also had protective headphones on his ears and appeared to be lifting a water bottle with both arms to drink
By the Associated Press
Trump told Fox News he spoke to Maduro several times, including most recently a week ago.
Maduro denied that in an interview on New Year’s Eve, saying he had only spoken to Trump in November.
By the Associated Press
China strongly condemned the U.S. strike in Venezuela and the action against its president, the Foreign Ministry said, adding the Beijing government was “deeply shocked” and firmly opposed to the operation.
“Such hegemonic acts of the U.S. seriously violate international law and Venezuela’s sovereignty and threaten peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean region,” it said.
It called on the U.S. to comply with international law and the principles of the U.N. Charter, urging it to stop violating the sovereignty and security of other nations.
By the Associated Press
The indictment accuses Maduro of leading a “a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect and promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking.” It alleges that the drug trafficking efforts “enriched and entrenched Venezuela’s political and military elite.”
U.S. authorities allege that Maduro partnered with “some of the most violent and prolific drug traffickers and narco-terrorists in the world” to bring tons of cocaine into the U.S., according to the indictment.
Authorities estimate that as much as 250 tons of cocaine were trafficked through Venezuela by 2020, according to the indictment. The drugs were moved on go-fast vessels, fishing boats and container ships or via planes from clandestine airstrips, authorities allege.
By the Associated Press
Maduro’s whereabouts were unclear after the US said that he and his wife had been captured. President Trump said on Saturday morning that the two were on a US warship.
And he said that they would face US charges, echoing what Attorney General Pam Bondi had said.
By the Associated Press
Trump said a helicopter was hit during the operation in Venezuela and a few U.S. members were injured, but he believed none were killed.
“A couple of guys were hit, but they came back and they’re supposed to be in pretty good shape,” he said.He said the U.S. lost no aircraft in the operation.
“We got it all back. One of them was hit pretty hard but—a helicopter—but we got it back.“We had to do it because it’s a war,” he added a few moments later.
By the Associated Press
President Trump said in an interview Saturday morning that the United States will be making decisions on what is next for Venezuela after capturing the Latin American country’s president and flying him out of the country.
“We’ll be involved in it very much” as to who will govern the country, Trump said.
“We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News hours after the capture.
By the Associated Press
Nicolás Maduro rose from unionized bus driver to Venezuelan president and oversaw his country’s democratic undoing and economic collapse.
Maduro’s political career began 40 years ago. In 1986, he traveled to Cuba to receive a year of ideological instruction, his only formal education after high school. Upon his return, he worked as a bus driver for the Caracas subway system, where he quickly became a union leader.
Maduro left his driver job and joined the political movement that Hugo Chávez organized after receiving a presidential pardon in 1994 for leading a failed and bloody military coup years earlier. After Chávez took office, the former youth baseball player rose through the ranks of the ruling party, spending his first six years as a lawmaker before becoming president of the National Assembly. He then served six years as foreign minister and a couple months as vice president.
By the Associated Press
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on X that she had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the EU ambassador in Caracas. “The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint.”Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called for “de-escalation and responsibility. International Law and the principles of the United Nations Charter must be respected,” Sánchez wrote on X.Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it is “extremely alarmed” and called for “immediate clarification,” according to a statement posted Saturday on the ministry’s Telegram channel. The ministry said such actions, if confirmed, would constitute “an unacceptable infringement on the sovereignty of an independent state.”British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the U.K. was not involved in the U.S. operation in Venezuela and that he would seek more information from Trump. Without condemning the U.S. action, Starmer said he always believes that international law should be upheld. “But I think at this stage, fast moving situation, let’s establish the facts and take it from there,” he said.
Globe Staff
President Trump said in a social media post announcing Maduro’ capture that he would address the nation at 11 a.m. during a news conference from his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida.
By the Associated Press
At a pro-Maduro protest in the capital, Caracas Mayor Carmen Meléndez joined a crowd that demanded that Maduro be returned immediately.
“Maduro, hold on, the people are rising up!” the crowd chanted. They also said: “We are here Nicolás Maduro. If you can hear us, we are here!” Elsewhere, residents were still taking in the events.
“How do I feel? Scared, like everyone,” said Caracas resident Noris Prada, who sat on an empty avenue looking down at his phone. “Venezuelans woke up scared, many families couldn’t sleep. I have been on the street, I just got back from Maracay, everything is blocked, everything is bad, very bad.”
“They impose the law,” electrician Alfonso Valdez said about the U.S. government. “They are the police of the world … they are assassins.”
By Tyler Pager, The New York Times
President Donald Trump sounded tired.
It was just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning and 10 minutes after he announced on social media that the United States had captured Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. I had called the president to try to better understand what happened and what comes next. He picked up after three rings and answered a few questions.
Trump first celebrated the mission’s success.
“A lot of good planning and lot of great, great troops and great people,” he told me. “It was a brilliant operation, actually.”
By the Associated Press
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says Maduro and his wife will face criminal charges after an indictment in New York.
Bondi vowed in a social media post that the couple will “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
Maduro was indicted in 2020 in New York, but it was not previously known that his wife had been.
By the Associated Press
Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro embrace in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)Cristian Hernandez/Associated PressBy the Associated Press
The Justice Department during Trump’s first term in office charged in the several indictments that Maduro had effectively converted Venezuela into a criminal enterprise at the service of drug traffickers and terrorist groups as he and his allies stole billions from the South American country.
The coordinated unsealing of indictments against 14 officials and government-connected individuals, and rewards of $55 million for Maduro and four others, attacked all the key planks of what then-Attorney General William Barr called the “corrupt Venezuelan regime,” including the Maduro-dominated judiciary and the powerful armed forces.
One indictment by prosecutors in New York accused Maduro and socialist party boss Diosdado Cabello, head of the rubber-stamping constitutional assembly, of conspiring with Colombian rebels and members of the military “to flood the United States with cocaine” and use the drug trade as a “weapon against America.”
By the Associated Press
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau says the military action and seizure of Maduro marks “a new dawn for Venezuela,” saying that “the tyrant is gone.”
He posted on X hours after the strike. His boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reposted a post from July that said Maduro “is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government.”
By the Associated Press
Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Rubio informed him that “he anticipates no further action in Venezuela now that Maduro is in U.S. custody,” the lawmaker posted on social media.
By the Associated Press
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted on X that he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who briefed him on the strike. Rubio told Lee that Maduro “has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States.”
The White House did not immediately respond to queries on where Maduro and his wife were being flown to. Maduro was indicted in March 2020 on “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges in the Southern District of New York.
Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.ALEJANDRO CEGARRA/NYTBy the Associated Press
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, one of Trump’s fiercest critics, said the Colombian government convened a national security meeting before dawn Saturday and sent security forces to the border in preparation for a potential “massive influx of refugees” from neighboring Venezuela.
He said he’d also call on the U.N. Security Council to consider “the aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Latin America.”
“Without sovereignty, there is no nation,” Petro wrote on social media.
By the Associated Press
Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned what it called a U.S. “act of armed aggression” against Venezuela in a statement posted on its Telegram channel Saturday.
“Venezuela must be guaranteed the right to determine its own destiny without any destructive, let alone military, outside intervention,” the statement said.
The ministry called for dialogue to prevent further escalation and said it reaffirmed its “solidarity” with the Venezuelan people and government, adding that Russia supports calls for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting.
By the Associated Press
The State Department issued a new travel alert early Saturday warning Americans in Venezuela urging them to “shelter in place” due to the situation.
“U.S. Embassy Bogota is aware of reports of explosions in and around Caracas, Venezuela,” it said without elaboration.
“The U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, warns U.S. citizens not to travel to Venezuela. U.S. citizens in Venezuela should shelter in place.” The embassy in Bogota has been shuttered since March, 2019 but operates remotely.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio retweeted Trump’s announcement without comment, but his deputy, Christopher Landau, posted Trump’s statement, adding that it marked “a new dawn for Venezuela!” “The tyrant is gone. He will now—finally—face justice for his crimes,” Landau said.
By the Associated Press
Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez says, “We do not know the whereabouts of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.” He added: “We demand proof of life.”
By the Associated Press
Trump said Maduro “has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow.” He set a news conference for later Saturday morning.
By the Associated Press
The explosions in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, early on the third day of 2026 — at least seven blasts — sent people rushing into the streets, while others took to social media to report hearing and seeing the explosions. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties. The apparent attack itself lasted less than 30 minutes, but it was unclear if more actions lay ahead, though Trump said in his post that the strikes were carried out “successfully.”
Pedestrians ran after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday.Matias Delacroix/Associated Press
Picture of fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, after a series of explosions in Caracas.LUIS JAIMES/AFP via Getty Images