Trump lauds US military action in Venezuela to capture Nicolas Maduro

19:57, 03.01.2026

“Few injuries but no deaths on our side… it was amazing to see professionalism,” said U.S. President Donald Trump, who lauded US military action in Venezuela to capture Nicolas Maduro.

Trump said he observed the military action from the Mar-a-Lago Residence.

Donald Trump said the United States is going to be “very strongly involved” in Venezuela’s oil industry.

US President added that he spoke to Maduro “a week ago” and that he told him “you have to give up, you have to surrender.”

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro and his wife have been captured after a ‘large-scale strike.’

The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading a drug-trafficking organization known as the Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns.

Maduro would face criminal charges in the U.S.

 

 

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