Overview
- In a lengthy post on X, the Argentine leader denounced the U.S. operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, identified in reports as “Operation Resolución Absoluta.”
- She said the Trump administration “crossed a limit” by executing a nighttime armed incursion on Venezuelan soil.
- Her statement calls the detention a “literal” kidnapping and alleges violations of the United Nations Charter and international law.
- She cited reports of numerous deaths from the raid and warned it will fuel high instability and set a dangerous precedent for weaker states’ sovereignty and resources.
- She framed the action as a revival of Big Stick–era interventionism and asserted the true objective is seizing Venezuela’s vast conventional oil reserves rather than restoring democracy or fighting narcotrafficking.