Times Square rally in wake of Trump’s Venezuela strike sees hundreds decry operation as a war crime

After President Donald Trump’s administration ordered a large-scale military strike in Venezuela, capturing its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores early Saturday morning, hundreds of New Yorkers immediately gathered in Times Square to denounce the action. 

The massive demonstration occurred just as Trump extradited the couple to the United States to be charged with narco-terrorism, cocaine trafficking and weapons offenses. Both Maduro and his wife have been charged since 2020, but were never in custody until this weekend.