The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is now “under arrest” and will be put on trial on US soil for crimes not yet specified,
The Republican senator for Utah, Mike Lee, has reported on his personal X account that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just informed him about the current situation of the Venezuelan president, “captured” this morning and taken out of the country along with his wife, first lady Cilia Flores, as announced by US President Donald Trump.
“Marco Rubio has informed me that Maduro has been arrested by US personnel to be tried on criminal charges in the United States,” he said before indicating that The US airstrikes were carried out “to protect and defend those carrying out the arrest warrant”, without giving more details at the moment.
The “capture” of Maduro and the US attacks on Venezuela have ended up overflowing the enormous diplomatic and military tension reigning in recent months between both countries. It should be remembered that Trump had ordered the naval deployment of combat ships to the coasts of Venezuela, seized oil tankers leaving its ports and openly threatened to attack Venezuelan territory under the argument of the fight against drugs.
The Secretary of State “does not anticipate further actions in Venezuela now that Maduro is in US custody,” added the ultra-conservative senator. ANDThe call did not reveal the state of health of the couple.
Amid criticism from Democratic opposition senators about the legality of the operation, Lee argues that the operation “probably falls within the inherent authority of the president, according to Article II of the Constitution, to protect U.S. personnel from actual or imminent attack.”
The North American Undersecretary of State, Christopher Landau, also spoke. “The tyrant is gone,” Landau declared in what he described as “a new dawn for Venezuela.” “Now, finally, justice will be faced for his crimes,” he added on his X account.
