The Venezuelan leader and his wife were seized early Saturday by U.S. Special Forces in Caracas and flown to New York, where they face narcoterrorism and drug-trafficking charges. The operation, which disabled parts of Venezuela’s air defenses, came under immediate international fire. Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Spain called it a “dangerous precedent for peace,” while Argentina’s Javier Milei praised the fall of a dictatorship.
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump said the United States would temporarily run Venezuela until a “safe and proper transition” could occur. He announced that U.S. oil companies would enter the country to restore its shattered energy sector — a plan critics said revealed Washington’s interest in controlling the world’s largest petroleum reserves. Continue reading…
