"News broke in the wee hours of Saturday morning that President Donald Trump's administration had conducted air strikes in Caracas, Venezuela's capital city, captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and brought them to the United States. The strikes sparked loud criticism for multiple reasons, chiefly because Trump had not sought authorization from Congress beforehand, and because of his pardon in December for Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras who was convicted of drug trafficking."
"Gabbard, who previously represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat, tweeted about the possibility of a military intervention in Venezuela on May 13, 2019, when she was a Democratic candidate for president. Throughout history, every time the US topples a foreign country's dictator/government, the outcome has been disastrous. Civil war/military intervention in Venezuela will wreak death & destruction to Venezuelan people, and increase tensions that threaten our national security."
U.S. airstrikes in Caracas captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and brought them to the United States. The strikes prompted criticism for lacking Congressional authorization and for occurring after President Trump's December pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking. Critics also cited Maduro's brutal repression and a contested third term seized despite election results favoring opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez. Tulsi Gabbard warned in May 2019 that historically U.S. efforts to topple foreign governments have been disastrous and that military intervention in Venezuela would cause death, civil war, and increased threats to U.S. national security.
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