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President Donald Trump announced that Americans were going to run Venezuela

until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition

after the overnight capture of

the President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Mr. Trump also said that American oil companies would go

into the country, an arrangement that would both benefit Venezuelans and compensate America

so that the intervention won't cost us anything. He had said that Delci Rodriguez,

the vice president, would cooperate with the Americans, an assertion she denied. Meanwhile, Mr. Maduro

arrived in New York, where he has been indicted for drug trafficking and supporting terrorism.

International responses to the news from Venezuela were notably mixed.

China said it was firmly opposed to such hegemonic behavior, and Russia called the Americans

active armed aggression, deeply concerning and condemnable. Mexico and Brazil also deplored

Mr Maduro's capture.

Javier Miele, the president of Argentina and a close ally of Mr. Trump, was rather happier.

Freedom is advancing, he wrote on social media.

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