Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was held in a New York detention center Sunday, awaiting drug charges after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious raid to seize him and said the United States would take control of the oil-rich country.
The image of the 63-year-old Maduro blindfolded and handcuffed en route βto the U.S. has stunned Venezuelans and was Washington's most controversial intervention in Latin America since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago.
He is due to appear in a Manhattan court Monday.
With memories of painful U.S. interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, many world leaders were staggered at Trump's move, even though Maduro's standing was βlow given his autocratic rule and substantial evidence of vote-rigging.
'US to run Venezuela'
Trump said the U.S. would βfor now manage the South American nation of about 30 million people plus its oil reserves, the lar
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