Overview
- U.S. special forces extracted Nicolás Maduro to the United States, an operation President Trump said he watched in real time, as he signaled strong U.S. involvement in Venezuela’s oil sector.
- Trump asserted that cartels control Mexico and said “something will have to be done,” while warning Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and raising Cuba as a potential focus of U.S. policy.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the intervention, reaffirmed adherence to the UN Charter and the Estrada Doctrine, and summarized ties with Washington as collaboration and coordination, not subordination.
- Mexico reported contacts from other Latin American leaders and said a joint regional statement is in preparation, with no immediate call planned with Trump and a review of ties with Venezuela underway.
- Morena, PT and PVEM lawmakers and allied governors publicly backed Sheinbaum’s stance, and former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador also denounced the U.S. action.