{"id":385871,"date":"2026-01-03T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:58:08","slug":"trump-says-us-will-run-venezuela-after-nicolas-maduro-seized-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385871\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will \u2018run\u2019 Venezuela after Nicolas Maduro seized | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Trump says the US will \u2018run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 3 Jan 20263 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Updated: 32 minutes agoUpdated: 32 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/1\/3\/live-loud-noises-heard-in-venezuelas-capital-amid-us-tensions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States will \u201crun\u201d Venezuela<\/a> until a political transition can take place, just hours after US forces bombed the South American country and \u201ccaptured\u201d its president, Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a news conference on Saturday, Trump said the US would \u201crun the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/3\/world-reacts-to-reported-us-bombing-of-venezuela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched attacks<\/a> on the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in the early hours of Saturday after a months-long pressure campaign against Maduro\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>That campaign included US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/20\/us-seizes-second-oil-vessel-off-venezuela-coast-officials-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seizures of oil tankers<\/a> off the Venezuelan coast, as well as deadly attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean that were widely denounced as extrajudicial killings.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had accused the Venezuelan leader, who has been in power since 2013, of having ties to drug cartels \u2013 a claim rejected by Maduro, who said the US was working to depose him and take control of Venezuela\u2019s vast oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>During Saturday\u2019s news conference, Trump said \u201cvery large United States oil companies\u201d would move into Venezuela to \u201cfix the badly broken \u2026 oil infrastructure and start making money for the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his administration\u2019s actions \u201cwill make the people of Venezuela rich, independent and safe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has defended the \u201ccapture\u201d of Maduro by saying the left-wing leader faced drug-related charges in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Trump earlier said the Venezuelan president \u2013 who was taken into US custody along with his wife, Cilia Flores \u2013 was being transferred to New York to face those charges.<\/p>\n<p>But legal experts, world leaders and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/3\/us-lawmakers-react-to-attack-on-venezuela-capture-of-maduro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party lawmakers<\/a> in the US have condemned the administration\u2019s actions as a violation of international law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttacking countries, in flagrant violation of international law, is the first step toward a world of violence, chaos, and instability, where the law of the strongest prevails over multilateralism,\u201d Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Saul, the United Nations\u2019 special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, also slammed what he called Washington\u2019s \u201cillegal abduction\u201d of Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Trump says the US will \u2018run the country until such time as we can 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