Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

President Trump says the U.S. will run Venezuela after U.S. forces captured President Maduro and his wife in Caracas overnight.

They will face drug trafficking and weapons charges in federal court in Manhattan, President Trump.

The overwhelming evidence of their crimes will be presented in a court of law.

And I've seen it. I've seen what we have.

It's both horrible and breathtaking that something like this could have been allowed to take place.

And peers Ryan Lucas has more.

A new indictment unsealed in New York charges Nicolas Maduro with narco-terrorism conspiracy,

cocaine importation conspiracy, and other charges.

His wife, Celia Flores, is also charged.

The indictment says that Maduro presided over a vast conspiracy over the past 25 years to flood the U.S.

with cocaine. Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials allegedly partnered with drug cartels,

providing law enforcement cover and logistical support to ship tons of cocaine to the United States.

Prosecutors say the alleged scheme enriched Maduro and his co-conspirators while thoroughly corrupting Venezuela's public institutions.

This follows in earlier indictment against Maduro that was announced by the Justice Department during President Trump's first term in office.

Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington.

Meanwhile, Nobel Prize winning opposition leader Maria Carino Machado, whose long-wanted Maduro ousted, says Edmundo Gonzalez should be allowed to take office.

Election results show he won the presidential election by a two-to-one margin, and she also urged her country's military to help get him back from Spain, where he's been living in exile.

Maduro claimed victory,

but in that contested election, but data showed otherwise. President Trump says it would be difficult,

though, for her to run the country, saying without providing evidence that she doesn't have the

respect of Venezuelans. The head of the UN says he's deeply alarmed over the U.S. actions in Venezuela.

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