The UN Security Council will meet later today at Venezuela's request to review the legality of the U.S.
By Sammy,
The UN Security Council will meet later today at Venezuela's request to review the legality of the U.S. operation that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, as he is flown under tight security to a Manhattan courthouse to face drug-trafficking charges.
Footage shared online shows a helicopter and armored motorcade transporting Maduro, apparently alongside his wife Cilia Flores, following his dramatic extraction from Caracas over the weekend.
According to U.S. officials, special forces penetrated Maduro's security perimeter in a helicopter assault, seizing him near a fortified safe room in what is being described as Washington's most far-reaching intervention in Latin America in decades.
Back in Venezuela, senior figures from the long-ruling administration remain in control of the oil-rich nation, with interim leader Delcy Rodríguez pivoting from early defiance to offering cooperation with President Donald Trump, after initially condemning the operation as having a "Zionist tint."
Reported by Sammy for Bernie News Network. See our editorial standards and corrections policy.