This is a special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Valerie Sanderson.
The world is still adjusting to the U.S.
operation to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power.
What does it mean for the region?
What does it mean for international sovereignty?
And what does it say about President Trump's willingness to flex his muscles on the global stage?
The BBC has been taking questions from our audience about Venezuela and the global impact of the U.S.
mission.
So let's hear from my colleague, Matthew Amrolywala.
He's been speaking to our South America correspondent Let's get straight to your questions into Sumi.
The first question here, a pretty obvious one.
Why did this strike happen?
Why did Donald Trump, the US, capture Venezuela's president?
Yeah, that's an important question, isn't it, Matthew?
And we have a couple of answers to that question.
Indeed,
what we've heard from President Trump as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is that they saw Nicolás Maduro as the head of a drug trafficking organization that was directly a threat to the United States.
So the United States, the Secretary of State,
had said that they had designated two drug trafficking organizations,