US EditionThe Keys to Understanding One of the Most Critical Weeks for Venezuela — and Why some Citizens Have Mixed Emotions
Maduro and his wife face drug and weapons charges in New York while Venezuela's acting president is sworn in amid ongoing oil negotiations and political uncertainty.
- On Saturday, President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were taken from Caracas and are now jailed in New York on drug and weapons charges, triggering celebrations in Miami, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Bogotá.
- Contested July 28, 2024 elections and rival tallies set the political backdrop, with the opposition posting 67% while the National Electoral Council reported 51.2%, and US sanctions targeted PDVSA and senior deputies Diosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino.
- American Delta Force operatives entered Maduro's compound early Saturday, removed him and Cilia Flores from Caracas, and the US released a mission photo on Truth Social.
- Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as acting president Monday, authorities released some detainees and issued a decree authorizing arrests over the `US attack`.
- Venezuela's massive 300 billion barrel reserves and PDVSA negotiations with the United States highlight complex legal and commercial challenges, while nearly 8 million Venezuelans have fled and more than 600,000 lost TPS last year.
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The keys to understanding one of the most critical weeks for Venezuela — and why some citizens have mixed emotions
A lot of questions remain following the unprecedented US attack in Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro. For Venezuelans, both inside the country and abroad, it’s been a mix of emotions and a sense of uncertainty over what comes next.
Analysis by Flora Charner, CNN. People around the world—especially Venezuelans—are still processing the events that unfolded in Caracas a week ago, when Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were awakened at their residence early Saturday morning by U.S. Delta Force operatives and taken into custody. The ousted Venezuelan leader and the former first lady are now in a New York jail, facing drug and weapons charges, to which they pleaded not gu…
Permanent mobilizations across the country confirm revolutionary loyalty to the hijacking of the executive and the military aggression carried out by the US.
CARACAS, January 10.— The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, called to maintain the mobilization to achieve the liberation of the Head of State, Nicolás Maduro, kidnapped a week ago by the U.S. along with his partner, Cilia Flores, and for the advance of "social happiness." The exhortation was formulated during the opening on Friday of a Center of Integral Care for Women and Humanized Birth in the town of La Candelaria, which is …
Chavista sympathizers mobilized this Saturday in different areas of Caracas and in various regions of Venezuela to demand the release and return of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, deputy Cilia Flores, captured a week ago by forces of the United States in the midst of a series of attacks. The Chavistas entrance mobilizes to demand that the United States return to Venezuela to Maduro and his wife was first published in the Digital Process.
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