Overview
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized in Caracas and transferred to New York to face narcotics and firearms charges, according to U.S. officials.
- President Trump told Fox & Friends that Mexican cartels, not President Claudia Sheinbaum, control Mexico and said “something’s gonna have to be done with Mexico,” citing U.S. drug deaths.
- Mexico’s Foreign Ministry condemned the U.S. action in Venezuela as a unilateral breach that threatens regional stability and violates core non‑intervention principles.
- Trump said a second strike in Venezuela remains possible and separately signaled pressure on Colombia and Cuba, intensifying concerns over broader interventions in the hemisphere.
- U.S. statements and media reports describe airstrikes in Caracas with special forces support and no U.S. fatalities reported, as the administration frames the operation as a counter‑narcotics mission drawing legal and congressional scrutiny.