Venezuela live updates: interim president offers to ‘collaborate’ with US after Trump warns of further strikes

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Hello and invited to our unrecorded sum aft US forces seized Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro successful Caracas and took him to nan US to look supplier charges.

Donald Trump said aft nan subject cognition early connected Saturday that nan US would “run” Venezuela and warned connected Sunday that nan US mightiness motorboat a 2nd onslaught if nan government’s remaining members did not cooperate pinch his efforts to get nan state “fixed”.

Venezuelan vice-president and Maduro state Delcy Rodríguez has been appointed acting president and offered “to collaborate” pinch nan Trump administration successful what could beryllium a awesome displacement successful relations betwixt nan governments.

In a conciliatory connection connected Instagram connected Sunday she said she hoped to build “respectful relations” pinch Donald Trump.

“We induce nan US authorities to collaborate pinch america connected an schedule of practice oriented towards shared improvement wrong nan model of world rule to fortify lasting organization coexistence,” Rodríguez said.

Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodriguez (C) beside Vladimir Padrino (L) and Diosdado Cabello during nan assembly of ministers gathering successful Caracas connected Sunday. Photograph: Marcelo Garcia/Miraflores property office/AFP/Getty Images

In a televised reside earlier Rodríguez gave nary denotation she would cooperate pinch Trump, saying what was being done to Venezuela was “an atrocity that violates world law”, referring to Trump’s authorities arsenic “extremists” and maintaining that Maduro was Venezuela’s rightful leader.

But Trump warned later that if Rodríguez didn’t autumn successful line, “she is going to salary a very large price, astir apt bigger than Maduro”.

In different cardinal developments:

• Rodríguez announced a committee to activity nan merchandise of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

• Maduro is successful a New York detention centre awaiting a tribunal quality connected Monday connected supplier charges.

• Top officials successful Maduro’s authorities called nan seizure of Maduro and his woman a kidnapping. “Let nary 1 autumn for nan enemy’s provocations,” interior curate Diosdado Cabello said.

• Trump’s management described Maduro’s seizure arsenic a law-enforcement mission to unit him to look US criminal charges revenge successful 2020, including narco-terrorism conspiracy. Maduro has denied criminal involvement.

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro poses adjacent to US supplier enforcement officers arsenic he is led successful custody from a US national aeroplane successful Newburgh, New York, connected Saturday. Photograph: Reuters

• Maduro’s son, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, reportedly said his father’s supporters were much resolved than ever to support Maduro and nan ousted president would return. “We will return to nan streets, we will convene nan people.”

• Trump suggested Colombia and Mexico could besides look subject action if they did not trim nan travel of illicit narcotics to nan US, saying: “Operation Colombia sounds bully to me.”

• Images of nan 63-year-old Maduro blindfolded and handcuffed stunned Venezuelans. The cognition was Washington’s astir arguable involution successful Latin America since nan penetration of Panama 37 years ago.

• Venezuelan defence curate Gen Vladimir Padrino said connected authorities tv nan US onslaught killed soldiers, civilians and a “large part” of Maduro’s information item “in acold blood”. Venezuela’s equipped forces had been activated to guarantee sovereignty, he said.

• The Cuban authorities said 32 of its citizens were killed during nan raid.

• The governments of Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay said successful a associated connection nan US actions “constitute an highly vulnerable precedent for bid and location information and endanger nan civilian population”.

• All EU countries isolated from Hungary issued a statement calling for restraint by “all actors” and respect for nan will of nan Venezuelan group successful bid to “restore democracy”.

• UK premier curate Keir Starmer said Britain was not progressive successful nan onslaught but refused to condemn it. British furniture curate Darren Jones – a adjacent state of Starmer – called for a serene modulation of powerfulness successful Venezuela to beryllium reached “quickly”.

• Trump suggested nan US would not push for contiguous elections to instal a caller government but alternatively would activity pinch remaining members of nan Maduro management to clamp down connected supplier trafficking and overhaul its lipid industry. He said US lipid companies needed “total access” to nan country’s immense reserves.

• Hundreds of Chavismo supporters gathered successful Caracus connected Sunday to request nan merchandise of Maduro and Flores.
  With news agencies