Overview
- President Trump says Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores were seized in Venezuela and are being taken to New York aboard the USS Iwo Jima to face narcoterrorism charges.
- Trump recounts monitoring the raid from Mar-a-Lago and lauds its precision, with U.S. media attributing the action to elite Delta Force units.
- Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, the PRO party and Buenos Aires mayor Jorge Macri hail the detention and call for an immediate democratic restoration under Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado.
- President Javier Milei celebrates the capture, castigates left-wing critics and presses for the return of Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo, whom he says was taken by Venezuelan authorities.
- Emmanuel Macron backs a peaceful, opposition-led transition after speaking with María Corina Machado, as Russia and Cuba denounce the move and the UN Security Council readies a review.