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Today, the U.S. says it will run Venezuela after capturing President Nicholas Maduro.

We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and

judicious transition. How did we get here and what happens next? I'm Kevin Horton,

and this is the take.

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I'm Lucia Newman. I'm Al Jazeera's Latin American editor and senior correspondent, and I'm in Santiago, Chile.

Well, Lucia, welcome to the take. And honestly, I cannot think of anyone I would rather talk to in the wake of this kind of earth-shattering news weekend.

And for those who don't know, as you said, you're Latin American editor. You have a deep history

of reporting in the region. In fact, before you joined us here at Al Jazeera,

you had 20 years at CNN. You actually opened the Bureau in Cuba. So you have, to use the

cliche, seen it all. So I thought. And yet this, yeah, and this weekend is proof the world can

still surprise you. So before we dig in, try to put what we've witnessed into some perspective.

Where does this one rank for you?

I think it really ranks up at the, almost at the very top.

I can't think of anything else that has shocked me as much as what we've just seen in these 30 years that I've been covering Latin America.

And I was there for the last U.S. military incursion, shall we call it, in the region,

which was in Panama, from when the United States went in and it grabbed, kidnapped,

captured, used the word you like, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the strong man of Panama.

But this was completely different.

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