The Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro was brought to New York City to face federal drug charges, hours after the US military seized him and his wife. Photograph: Bryan Anselm/The New York Times
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention centre on Sunday after president Donald Trump ordered an audacious US raid to capture the South American leader and take control of the country and its vast oil reserves.
As part of the dramatic operation early on Saturday that knocked out electricity in parts of Caracas and included strikes on military installations, US Special Forces seized Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and transported them via helicopter to a US Navy ship offshore before flying them to the U.S.
“We will run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump told a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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