{"id":8980,"date":"2026-01-03T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:54:42","slug":"venezuela-attack-what-we-know-so-far-as-trump-claims-maduro-captured-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela attack: what we know so far as Trump claims Maduro captured | Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The US president, Donald Trump, has said Venezuela\u2019s dictator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nicolas-maduro\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been captured and flown out of the country after a \u201clarge scale\u201d pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region. Here is what we know so far:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Donald Trump has claimed the US has \u201ccaptured\u201d Venezuela\u2019s dictator, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the South American country<\/strong> after a pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region. The US president said a press conference will be held in Florida at 11am local time (4pm GMT).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Venezuela\u2019s government accused the US of launching a series of attacks against civilian and military targets<\/strong> in the South American country, after explosions rocked its capital, Caracas, before dawn on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>In a statement, Venezuela\u2019s government urged citizens to rise up against the assault<\/strong> and said Washington risked plunging Latin America into chaos with \u201can extremely serious\u201d act of \u201cmilitary aggression\u201d. \u201cThe entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard in Caracas in the early hours of Saturday.<\/strong> In its statement, Venezuela\u2019s government confirmed that the city had come under attack, as well as three other states: <strong>Miranda<\/strong>, <strong>La Guaira<\/strong> and <strong>Aragua<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"2abdde6c-78ac-43d5-a9aa-7cea2e8abb12\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">A burnt-out vehicle is seen at La Carlota airbase in Caracas, 3 January.<\/span> Photograph: Juan Barreto\/AFP\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Venezuela has accused the US of trying to \u201cseize control\u201d of the country\u2019s resources, in particular its oil and minerals.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/venezuela\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Venezuela<\/a> has called on the international community to denounce what it called a flagrant violation of international law that puts millions of lives at risk.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>In the early hours of Saturday, the president of neighbouring Colombia, Gustavo Petro, called for an immediate emergency session of the UN security council<\/strong>, saying on social media that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/venezuela\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Venezuela<\/a> had come under attack.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Venezuela #attack #Trump #claims #Maduro #captured #Venezuela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president, Donald Trump&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}