US President Donald Trump said in an interview on Saturday morning that the United States will be making decisions on what is next for Venezuela after capturing the Latin American country’s president and flying him out of the country
After threatening to bomb Venezuela for months, US President Donald Trump struck the country early on Saturday. PIC/PTI
The US government struck Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, at least seven times at 3.00 am VET on Saturday. Multiple explosions rang out, and low-flying aircraft swept through Caracas as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government immediately accused the US of attacking civilian and military installations.
US President Donald Trump said in an interview on Saturday morning that the United States will be making decisions on what is next for Venezuela after capturing the Latin American country’s president and flying him out of the country. “We’ll be involved in it very much” as to who will govern the country, Trump said. “We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off,” Trump said. Maduro has been charged with narco-terrorism in the US.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. PIC/PTI
“A couple of guys were hit, but they came back and they’re supposed to be in pretty good shape. We got it all back. One of them was hit pretty hard, a helicopter, but we got it back. We had to do it because it’s a war,” Trump responded about US’s casualties in the attacks.
The Venezuelan government called it an “imperialist attack” and urged citizens to take to the streets. Meanwhile, Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernandez said that Maduro and his wife were at their home within the Fort Tiuna military installation when they were captured. “That’s where they bombed,” he said. “And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the President and the First Lady of the country.”
EU, Russia, Colombia critique US’s move
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on X, “Under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint.” President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, one of Trump’s fiercest critics, said the Colombian government convened a national security meeting before dawn Saturday and sent security forces to the border in preparation for a potential “massive influx of refugees” from neighbouring Venezuela. He said he’d also call on the UN Security Council to consider “the aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Latin America. Without sovereignty, there is no nation,” Petro wrote on social media.
Nahum Fernandez, leader of Venezuelan ruling party, United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned what it called a US “act of armed aggression” against Venezuela in a statement posted on its Telegram channel on Saturday. “Venezuela must be guaranteed the right to determine its own destiny without any destructive, let alone military, outside intervention,” the statement said.
Cuba, a supporter of the Maduro government, called for the international community to respond to what president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez called “the criminal attack.” Iran’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the strikes.
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