The United States overnight on Friday carried out military strikes across Venezuela with explosions rocking the capital, Caracas, before dawn.
Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump announced that the U.S forces had captured the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the country.
The stunning attack and unprecedented capture of a sitting president follow months of an intense U.S pressure campaign against Venezuela.
Offering reasons for the strikes in Venezuela, the U.S Attorney General Pam Bondi says Maduro and his wife have been indicted in the Southern District of New York.
Maduro, she says, has been charged with “Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Bondi added, but failed to say what his wife has been charged with.
“A huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers,” she adds.
