US president says on social media that operation to capture Nicolás Maduro carried out with US law enforcement
Donald Trump has claimed the US has “captured” Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the South American country after a pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region.
“It was a brilliant operation, actually,” the US president told the New York Times after eyewitnesses in Venezuela reported a series of explosions. “A lot of good planning and [a] lot of great, great troops and great people.”