US President Donald Trump has said the US will “run” Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” can be ensured, after US strikes led to the capture of country’s President Nicolas Maduro.
US oil companies would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”, Trump said.
The US launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday in which Maduro and his wife were captured by US forces and removed from the country.
Venezuela announced a state of national emergency and denounced the “military aggression”, with the country’s vice president saying Maduro is its only leader.
US President Donald Trump declared that the US would rule Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” following the overnight US attack on the country and Nicolas Maduro’s arrest.”
Venezuela’s Maduro arrives in New York after capture by US
President Nicolas Maduro has been captured and brought to New York to face narco-terrorism charges after US strikes on Venezuela. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela. DW has more.
An airplane carrying Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores taxis after landing, before their scheduled court appearance at Manhattan federal court,
The plane carrying Maduro and his wife landed at a military base in New York
Trump says US will ‘run’ Venezuela and ‘fix oil infrastructure’
Watch: How the US attack on Venezuela unfolded
US President Donald Trump has said the US will “run” Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” can be ensured, after US strikes led to the capture of country’s President Nicolas Maduro.
US oil companies would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”, Trump said.
The US launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday in which Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, were captured by US forces and removed from the country.
Venezuela announced a state of national emergency and denounced the “military aggression”, with the country’s vice president saying Maduro is its only leader.
Maduro and Flores were flown out of the capital of Caracas on a US helicopter in the early hours of Saturday morning and taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima at an unknown location in the Caribbean Sea.
They were later flown to the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba before being transferred to another plane to head to New York State, and then flown by helicopter into New York City’s Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and Flores had been indicted in the Southern District of New York.
The pair have been charged with conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism and import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the US.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Bondi wrote on X.
Previously, Maduro has vehemently denied being a cartel leader and has accused the US of using its “war on drugs” as an excuse to try to depose him and get its hands on Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been brought to New York
The pair were captured by US forces during an overnight attack on Venezuela
Maduro has been indicted on ‘narco-terrorism conspiracy’ charges in the United States
US President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be ‘run’ by Washington until ‘safe’ transition
Millions of Venezuelans living abroad have celebrated Maduro’s capture
Russia, Iran, Brazil and others have condemned the attack, calling it a ‘violation of international law’
UN chief Antonio Guterres says attack has set a ‘dangerous precedent’
Germany, the EU, the UK and others have hailed Maduro’s ouster and called for elections, while also appealing for international law to be respected
