Trump: US Captured Maduro

“A lot of good planning and lot of great, great troops and great people,” Trump told the New York Times. “It was a brilliant operation, actually.”

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who would take power under the country’s law, said she didn’t know the whereabouts of Maduro and Flores.

“We demand proof of life,” Rodriguez said.

The Venezuelan government denounced the alleged attack as an aggression from the US and a violation of the United Nations charter.

“The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to forcibly break the nation’s political independence,” the government said in a statement. “They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate government remain steadfast in defense of sovereignty and the inalienable right to determine their own destiny.”

“Today, with the spirit of Bolivar, Miranda, and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise up once again to defend their independence against imperial aggression. People, take to the streets!” the government’s statement read.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed his neighboring country was “attacked” and called for a meeting between the Organization of American States and the United Nations.

“Right now they are bombing Caracas. Alert to the whole world, they have attacked Venezuela,” Petro wrote on X. “They are bombing with missiles. The OAS and the UN must meet immediately.”

Cuban officials called the strikes “criminal activity by the US.

“Our ‘Peace Zone’ is being brutally assaulted. State terrorism against the brave Venezuelan people and against Our America,” Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said. “Homeland or Death We Shall Overcome!”