Overview
- U.S.-released footage shows Nicolás Maduro arriving in New York in handcuffs escorted by DEA agents, with reports saying he will be held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday on drug conspiracy charges.
- President Trump said the United States will administer Venezuela for a transition period and did not rule out deploying ground forces, assigning Secretary of State Marco Rubio to develop details.
- After reports that the Supreme Court named Vice President Delcy Rodríguez interim president, she went on state television to declare Maduro the only president and demanded his and Cilia Flores’s release.
- Key figures Jorge Rodríguez, Defense Minister Wladimir Padrino López and Diosdado Cabello appeared with Rodríguez to signal unity, and the armed forces were declared fully activated.
- International responses diverged, with Brazil, Mexico and Colombia joining Russia and China in condemning the intervention while Argentina’s Javier Milei and leaders in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile’s president-elect José Antonio Kast expressed support; Germany issued a nationwide travel warning and said the legal assessment is complex.