Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela and 'fix oil infrastructure'

Maduro and Flores were flown out of the capital, Caracas, on a US helicopter in the early hours of Saturday morning and taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima at an unknown location in the Caribbean Sea. "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country." A new government must be "respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people", Macron wrote in a post on X. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the legality of the US operation was "complex" and warned that "political instability must not be allowed to arise in Venezuela".