Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

The Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro pleads not guilty to narco-terrorism charges in New York

after being captured by the United States in an audacious military operation over the weekend.

We get the details from the courtroom. And I asked former acting U.S.

ambassador to Venezuela, Todd Robinson, whether the U.S. should run the country, as Trump says.

Then Maduro's deputy becomes acting Venezuelan president, Trump dismisses the country's opposition party.

I speak with one of those politicians, David Smolanski.

Plus, if this is the new Trump doctrine, could Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Greenland, Iran?

Be next? Former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda joins me with the big picture. Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Christian Amandpur in London. Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

Not guilty, completely innocent.

So say the ousted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a New York court today.

This comes just days after a stunning operation saw U.S. Special Forces raid the capital of Venezuela, Caracas,

arrest the dictator and his wife from their beds in the dead of night, and extract them to the

United States to face narco-terrorism and weapons charges. President Donald Trump declared

his intention was to assert, quote, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

And his number one focus is Venezuela's oil.

Maduro's deputy, Delci Rodriguez, is acting as interim president, but President Trump has made

it clear who's really in charge.

Don't ask me who's in charge because I'll give you an answer and it'll be very controversial.

What does that mean?

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