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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Maduro Ousted and Trump Says the US Will Run Venezuela | Expert Analysis from Elizabeth Dickinson of the International Crisis Group
Description: In a stunning U.S. military operation carried out in the early hours of Saturday, January 3rd, American forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. As of Saturday afternoon Eastern Time, the two were en route to New York, where they are expected to face criminal charges tied to a U.S. indictment issued roughly five years ago. The operation follows months of escalating confrontation between Washington and Caracas. The Trump administration had already carried out military strikes on vessels accused of drug smuggling and seized oil tankers off Venezuela's coast. Hours after Maduro's c...