What to Know
- The U.S. is “going to run the country,” President Trump said of Venezuela at a press conference after the military captured Nicolás Maduro. He also sketched a plan to send U.S. oil companies to take over Venezuelan oil operations, but offered few concrete details.
- Multiple explosions rang out and low-flying aircraft swept through Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, as Maduro’s government immediately accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in the very early hours of Saturday.
- President Donald Trump said that Maduro “has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country.”
- The couple has been indicted in the Southern District of New York with narcoterrorism and other charges, according to documents.
- The attack has drawn condemnation from leaders in Russia, the United Kingdom and Mexico among others. Legal experts have also cast doubt on the strike’s legitimacy.
- Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said on state TV that the objective of what she described as regime change in Venezuela was to capture the country’s oil and natural resources. She later added that Venezuela stands ready to defend those resources.
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