Venezuela Live Updates: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has arrived in New York after being “captured” in an operation by US forces early Saturday morning. US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed a “large-scale attack against Venezuela”.
A video released by the White House’s Rapid Response 47 account on X shows Maduro in custody walking down a hallway at the offices of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in New York.
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Meanwhile, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has been declared the obvious successor to Maduro. Speaking on state television, Rodríguez said Maduro was the country’s only president as she called for his release from US custody.
It comes even as US President Donald Trump said: “We will run the country until we are able to make a safe, orderly and judicious transition.”
During a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump said, according to Reuters, that as part of the takeover, major U.S. oil companies would move into Venezuela, which has the world’s largest oil reserves, and rebuild a severely devastated oil infrastructure, a process experts say could take years.
Stay tuned to this LIVE blog for all the latest updates on the US strikes in Venezuela.
