Overview
- President Pedro Sánchez denounced the U.S. action in Venezuela as a violation of international law and coordinated a joint statement with Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay rejecting the operation.
- Washington says Nicolás Maduro is in custody pending transfer to the United States for trial, a claim that has thrown Venezuela’s immediate political future into question.
- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo avoided condemning the U.S. move, called Maduro’s fall good news, backed elections led by Edmundo González and María Corina Machado, and rejected Delcy Rodríguez as a transitional figure.
- Madrid’s right wing split between cautious endorsement and celebration, with Isabel Díaz Ayuso praising the intervention, while Sumar and Podemos condemned it as imperialist and Podemos urged leaving NATO.
- Sánchez is building a diplomatic front critical of Trump’s approach, with Latin American partners issuing a sharper rebuke than most EU voices, as Spanish politics grow more polarized over who should steer Venezuela’s transition.