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Maduro in custody at New York detention centre

President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, are being held at a New York detention centre after their capture in US strikes on Venezuela on Saturday

They were taken from the capital Caracas to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to face drug trafficking-related charges. Maduro has previously denied being the leader of a drug cartel

Venezuela has declared a state of national emergency and denounces the “military aggression” – here’s how the US operation unfolded

President Donald Trump says the US is going to “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”

US oil companies would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”, Trump says

Venezuelans ‘just want to live without fear’, says a resident of Caracas

Trump’s remarks mark a reversal of what he vowed not to do in his second term in power – a pledge to be a president who would stop wars, not start them, writes chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet

 

 

 

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