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The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Saturday ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to serve as acting president following the US’s operation in the country that led to the capture of the country’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
The Venezuelan Supreme Court ruled that the country’s VP will assume “the office of President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defence of the Nation”.
The top court also noted that it would work to “determine the applicable legal framework to guarantee the continuity of the State, the administration of government, and the defence of sovereignty in the face of the forced absence of the President of the Republic”. Earlier, Trump had said that the US would not occupy Venezuela, provided Rodriguez “does what we want”.
Maduro brought to New York
After the shocking US operation in Venezuela, a plane carrying the country’s ‘captured’ President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, arrived in New York. The plane landed just hours after an overnight US military attack in the Latin American nation’s capital that was hailed by US President Donald Trump.
While confirming the news of the operation, Trump lauded the strikes and Maduro’s capture as “an assault like people have not seen since World War II” and vowed the US would run the leaderless country. While speaking at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, Trump provided few details after ousting Maduro in an audacious military attack.
He maintained that the United States would be in control of Venezuela until there was an orderly transition of power. It is pertinent to note that Maduro was in the US custody hours after being seized from his Caracas compound in a US raid, landed at Stewart Air National Guard Base after 4.30 pm (local time) in a white Boeing 757.
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