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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. President Trump says the U.S. is taking over Venezuela. A military operation early this morning seized President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. They're being taken back to the U.S. to stand trial. in the Southern District of New York on drug and weapons charges. Trump says U.S. officials will run the country temporarily, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. U.S. oil companies will operate Venezuela's oil reserves. NPR's Franco Ordonez has more.
Trump says that the U.S. is going to get very strongly involved. He says companies are going to be investing millions and billions of dollars. Of course, Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world. And U.S. involvement would be a huge deal for the industry. I mean, though it would take a long time to reestablish the oil infrastructure in the country.
NPR's Franco Ardonia is reporting. South Florida is home to many Venezuelans. They gathered early this morning in a Miami suburb to celebrate. Kayvon Antonio-Hedara reports from Miami.
After learning of the news from Caracas, exultant expats in South Florida gathered from the early morning in El Arepaso in Doral, a city where 40% of its residents have Venezuelan roots. Carmen Wallace left Venezuela in 2017 after street protests were suppressed violently, and she was surprised by the military operation. She is cautious about the future.
Honestly, there's a lot of things that we need to see before we all go back, but this is a start.
Venezuelan euphoria is now tempered as they observe events and the Trump administration's statements. For NPR News, I'm Kevan Antonio Haidari in Miami.
Russia is condemning the U.S. actions against Venezuela. NPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow, Maduro has been an ally of the Kremlin.
In a statement, Russia's foreign ministry called the Trump administration's pretext for attacking Venezuela unfounded and said the U.S. actions marked an unacceptable assault on Venezuela's sovereignty. Despite such expressions of support, Moscow has stopped short of challenging the U.S. more forcefully amid a months-long pressure campaign by the Trump administration against the Venezuelan leadership. The Kremlin reportedly rebuffed a request by Nicolas Maduro for direct military assistance in the fall, a result, analysts say, of Moscow's desire to maintain good relations with the Trump administration as it tries to broker its own peace deal for Russia's war in Ukraine. Charles Baines, NPR News, Moscow.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini said today the Islamic Republic will not yield to the enemy. President Trump said yesterday if Iran kills peaceful protesters, the U.S. will come to their rescue. At least 10 people have died in demonstrations this week. This is NPR News. Syria is circulating new currency bills to replace the old Syrian pounds, which will gradually be withdrawn from circulation. The government is attempting to stabilize the economy. A year after the fall of the government of Bashar Assad, some of the old banknotes bear the image of Assad and his late father and predecessor, Hafez Assad. Beverage giant Coca-Cola plans to lay off 75 employees at its Atlanta corporate headquarters.
The company says it's part of a broader reorganization of its workforce this year. Marlon Hyde of member station WABE has more on the story.
About 75 employees at Coca-Cola's Atlanta headquarters will lose their jobs towards the end of February, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filing. Lisa Chang, Coke's executive vice president and global chief people officer, wrote in a warned letter that the company anticipates workforce reductions will occur in waves over the coming months. She adds that employees were given more than 60 days' notice and affected workers are not represented by a union. Coca-Cola spokesperson Scott Leith says this is part of an ongoing process to eliminate some jobs while creating others, and the overall number of changes has yet to be determined.
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