2026-01-04
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Our Top Stories President Donald Trump announced that Americans were going to run Venezuela until such time
as we can do a safe,
proper and judicious transition after the overnight capture of the President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
Mr.
Trump also said that American oil companies would go into the country,
an arrangement that would both benefit Venezuelans and compensate America so that the intervention won't cost us anything.
He had said that Delcey Rodriguez, the vice president,
would cooperate with the Americans, an assertion she denied.
Meanwhile, Mr.
Maduro arrived in New York,
where he has been indicted for drug trafficking and supporting terrorism.
International responses to the news from Venezuela were notably mixed.
China said it was firmly opposed to such hegemonic behaviour,