Overview
- U.S. special forces seized Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores during pre-dawn strikes in Caracas that hit military sites and caused power outages, then moved them via a Navy ship to New York.
- Maduro is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday on narco-terrorism, drug and weapons charges.
- President Trump said the United States will temporarily run Venezuela and direct major U.S. oil companies to repair its energy sector, while keeping the option of deploying troops open.
- Venezuela’s authorities called the action a kidnapping, and the country’s high court ordered Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to serve as acting president in Maduro’s absence.
- The U.N. Security Council will meet Monday after China and Russia condemned the operation, as U.S. lawmakers demand briefings and question the legal basis for the raid.