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Global News Podcast · President Trump says US captures Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro · 3 Jan 2026 podcast

continually propped up.

So it is a very, very unique situation in modern Latin America.

And of course, we don't know where, quite simply, the rest of the conflict will go.

We know, of course, that Mr. Maduro and his wife, that President Trump has said they are no longer on Venezuelan soil and that they are being brought to the United States, we believe, to face charges

But we've only heard from the Venezuelan side noises of sort of digging in further from the defense minister, from the vice president.

There's been a state of emergency, what they call a state of commotion has been declared.

and a message has gone out to all of the socialist allies within Venezuela in militias and civil militias and grassroots organisations, as well as putting the military on a war footing.

So the picture for ordinary Venezuelans is deeply worrying.

Well, we can only speculate at this stage.

There is a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Florida residence, due in a few hours, and hopefully we'll hear more information there.

But we speculate that there must have been, or we believe there may have been, some kind of inside information making its way directly to Washington.

insecure channels, that may mean that somebody quite close in Mr. Maduro's inner circle has turned on him.

That is the plausible explanation for how this could have unfolded quite so cleanly and quickly.

Marco Rubio apparently spoke to a senator in the United States and made those sorts of explanations.

It was Republican Senator Mike Lee who said that

Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, had told him that Nicolas Maduro has been arrested by U.S.

personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States and that, as he put it, the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant.

And further down, he added in a comment to that post on social media, he anticipates no further action in Venezuela now that Maduro is in U.S.

custody.

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