Trump: US will run Venezuela after Maduro’s capture

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has said that his country would run Venezuela after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro until a political transition is achieved.

President Trump made this position known when he addressed newsmen at a news conference on Saturday.

He said Washington would “run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”.

He said: “We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in and end up with the same situation we’ve had for a long period of years.”

He added that any transition “has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about”. 

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Trump spoke hours after the US captured Venezuelan Maduro and his wife and flew them out of the South American country.

Shortly before Maduro’s capture, the US bombed Caracas, cutting the Venezuelan capital off from the national power grid.

Commenting on the attack, Trump described the strike as “an incredible thing to see”, saying no American soldier was killed and no military equipment was lost during the operation.

He also claimed the US had “knocked out 97 percent of the drugs coming by sea”, alleging that most of the drugs originated from Venezuela.

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