"Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations. The dramatic action capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on the South American nation and its autocratic leader, and months of secret planning resulting in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq."
"Maduro and his wife, seized overnight from their home on a military base, were first taken aboard a U.S. warship on their way to face prosecution for a Justice Department indictment accusing them of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy. A plane believed to be carrying the deposed leader landed Saturday evening in New York. A person in custody was escorted off the jet, gingerly making his way down a stairway before being led across the tarmac surrounded by federal agents."
Nicolas Maduro was ousted in an audacious military operation and is scheduled for arraignment in Manhattan on a four-count indictment alleging he led a 25-year narco-terrorism conspiracy. President Donald Trump said the United States would run Venezuela temporarily and tap vast oil reserves to sell to other nations. The action followed months of secret planning and an intensive U.S. pressure campaign and prompted legal questions about lawfulness. Maduro and his wife were seized from their home on a military base, taken aboard a U.S. warship, flown to New York, and escorted from a jet by federal agents.
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