Overview
- President Trump described a multi‑domain strike in Caracas using roughly 150 aircraft, electronic suppression and special forces, claiming no U.S. fatalities.
- Washington says Nicolás Maduro and his wife were removed to U.S. custody en route to New York to face U.S. charges including narcoterrorism and cocaine trafficking.
- Trump said the United States will administer Venezuela on a transitional basis until a “safe, proper and reasonable” transfer of power, with U.S. forces postured in the Caribbean.
- Venezuelan authorities declared a state of emergency, said they do not know Maduro’s whereabouts and demanded proof he is alive, as Russia condemned the action as a sovereignty violation and protests were reported in Rome.
- Trump linked the operation to energy goals, saying U.S. firms would rebuild Venezuela’s oil industry and that the United States intends to sell Venezuelan crude to foreign buyers.