Error of judgment? US President Trump’s scramble for Venezuelan oil coincides with transition shrinking appetite for fossil fuel
Experts caution that a number of realities – including international oil prices and longer-term questions of stability in the country – are likely to make this oil revolution much harder to execute than Trump seems to think.
Trump announces America will run Venezuela ‘until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition’
Officials told CBS News and the BBC that Trump ordered airstrikes on various sites in Venezuela. Among the locations struck were the main military base, Fuerte Tiuna, and the main airbase, La Carlota, as well as El Volcán, a signal antenna site, and La Guaira Port, a seaport on the coast of the Caribbean, David Smolansky, a spokesman for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, told CBS News.
Trump gloats over capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, expected to be tried in US for drug trafficking
President Maduro was captured by a team that included elite US Special Forces, including the US Army’s Delta Force, a US official said. Republican US Senator Mike Lee said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told him Maduro would stand trial on criminal charges in the US and that no further action was anticipated inside Venezuela.
US raises red flag over Venezuelan poll as President Maduro warns results will be defended by army and police
Maduro – whose 2018 re-election is considered fraudulent by the United States, among others – had warned last week of a “bloodbath” if he were to lose.
