Overview
- Posting to social media, Andrés Manuel López Obrador condemned the U.S. action in Venezuela as a "prepotent attack on sovereignty" and called Maduro’s capture a "secuestro."
- AMLO urged President Donald Trump to reject interventionist "hawks," warning that "the fleeting victory of today can be the resounding defeat of tomorrow."
- He cited Benito Juárez’s maxim "el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz" and invoked Bolívar and Lincoln to argue against what he called a "global tyranny."
- He expressed "unconditional" support for President Claudia Sheinbaum, aligning with Mexico’s official condemnation of the intervention on non‑intervention grounds.
- U.S. officials say Maduro was removed to U.S. custody after a tactical operation, and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have filed narcoterrorism charges against him and Cilia Flores.