The United States military snatched Venezuela’s President, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their residence on Friday night and spirited them out of the country during a military intervention.
This was confirmed by US President Donald Trump.
Maduro has been indicted in New York on drugs and money laundering charges, according to US Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi vowed in a social media post that the couple will “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
It was in 2020 that the U.S. Department of Justice charged Maduro and other members of this government with drug trafficking and money laundering.
Trump, upon returning to the White House in 2025, stepped up American pressure on Venezuela. This was heightened late in the year with controversial military strikes on small boats off the coast of the South American country, allegedly transporting drugs destined for the US.
More than a hundred men in these boats, many of them said to be innocent fishermen, have been killed in these operations. In the most controversial of these, two men, hanging onto the remnant of the their bombed boat, with no means of defending themselves, were killed in a follow-up strike.
The US then started boarding and impounding ships transporting Venezuelan oil, saying it was enforcing an embargo on the country’s trade in oil.
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