President Donald Trump has announced that the United States intends to run Venezuela
after it carried out a large-scale attack
and claimed to have captured its president, Nicolas Maduro,
flying him out of the country with his wife.
Explosions were heard in the capital Caracas this morning as well as in other Venezuelan cities.
Nicolas Maduro has already been charged in New York with drugs and weapons offenses.
At a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida,
and flanked by members of his top administration team,
including Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio,
President Trump said the United States will be running Venezuela
until such time as a safe and orderly transition can be achieved.
We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
So we don't want to be involved with having somebody else get in
and we have the same situation that we had
for the last long period of years.
So we are going to run the country until such time
as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
And it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.
We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela.
And that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States