Overview
- A senior Venezuelan official reported at least 40 dead, including civilians and soldiers, with a residential strike in Catia La Mar killing 80-year-old Rosa González and seriously injuring another person.
- More than 150 U.S. aircraft were used to knock out air defenses before helicopters inserted troops to seize Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a night-time operation that began around 2 a.m. and lasted roughly two hours and twenty minutes.
- President Donald Trump said no U.S. troops were killed, acknowledging some injuries, while General Dan Caine said extraction helicopters took fire, one was hit but remained flyable, and all aircraft returned.
- Maduro and Cilia Flores were flown to New York to face a newly unsealed Southern District of New York indictment on narcotics-related charges, as protesters gathered outside Stewart Air National Guard Base.
- Vice‑President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in at a private ceremony in Caracas asserting Maduro’s authority, while Trump said the United States would run the country until a transition is arranged and discussed opening Venezuela’s oil sector to U.S. companies.