THE LATEST | CANADANew York Times: The United States military captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, in a lightning strike on Caracas early Saturday morning and was transporting him to New York to face criminal charges, the stunning culmination of a months-long campaign by President Trump and his aides to oust the authoritarian leader…
Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro: President Trump said that he and key members of his administration watched in real time from Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club, the Delta Force raid that captured Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, on Saturday…
CNN: Oil reserves: Trump said the US would take control of Venezuela’s massive oil reserves and recruit American companies to invest billions of dollars to refurbish the country’s gutted industry.He specified that US troops would “have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”
Bloomberg: Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez called for Maduro’s return even after Trump suggested she had agreed to help the US in a transition. Her long allegiance to Maduro raises questions about whether she would be willing to cede power — and whether the US is seriously committed to regime change in the South American nation…
Financial Times: Residents close to targets fled and armed government supporters took to streets as Washington’s forces hit…
Wall Street Journal: Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro had long seemed untouchable despite a $50 million bounty on his head and a U.S. indictment unsealed in 2020 accusing him of narco-terrorism.
Now Maduro, who was whisked out of the country along with his wife after a military strike early Saturday, is set to stand trial in a New York federal court for drug trafficking and conspiring with terrorists…
Max Boot/Washington Post: The raid to nab Maduro was brilliantly executed. The aftermath could get extremely messy…
BBC: Sir Keir Starmer has refused to be drawn on whether or not US President Donald Trump’s military action against Venezuela may have broken international law.
In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, the prime minister did not condemn the US strikes…
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