US Venezuela Updates: Trump Elaborates On Maduro's Capture, Caracas Strikes; Maduro Pleads Not Guilty

US President Donald Trump spoke about the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and said that US had a lot of boots on the ground.

He added that many cuban soldiers were killed in Venezuela raid.

"The electricity for Venezuela was cut", Trump informed.

Venezuela’s ‌main oil ports today have entered their ‍fifth day ‍without delivering crude for state-run PDVSA’s customers in Asia, which are the OPEC country’s main buyers, shipping data reviewed by Reuters news agency shows.

This comes amid US push on the nation through an oil embargo.

(Source: Reuters)

In a first, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration thanked media outlets.

They credited news organisations that had learned in advance about Saturday’s strike that led to the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with not putting the mission in jeopardy by publicly reporting on it before it happened.

(Source: Al Jazeera)

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s movement has demanded the release of all political prisoners after the US abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

“Those who unjustly hold the civilian and military political prisoners should free them immediately,” the Vente Venezuela movement said of political detainees, whom a leading local rights group puts at 863.

(Source: Al Jazeera)

Trafigura Group, the world’s largest metal trader and second-largest oil trader, confirmed in a TV interview with Bloomberg that it will hold talks with the US government about how it can return to buying crude oil from Venezuela.