The United States has carried out a “large scale military strike” against Venezuela and captured its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, US President Donald Trump announced on social media.
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform early on Saturday, shortly after loud explosions were reported in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, marking a major escalation against the Latin American country.
Trump said that Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, was also captured during the operation and both were “flown out of the country”. It remains unclear where Maduro and his wife were taken.
The government said the attacks occurred in the capital, Caracas, on Saturday as well as in the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira.
Tensions have been rising in recent weeks in Venezuela after Trump threatened to launch attacks on targets allegedly linked to drug trafficking.
The US president has repeatedly threatened ground strikes on drug cartels in the Latin American region, including Venezuela, which he has labelled “narcoterrorists”.
He has claimed, without providing evidence, that Venezuela’s Maduro leads a trafficking organisation that aims to destabilise the US by flooding it with drugs
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