Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife will face criminal charges in the United States after an extraordinary overnight military raid to secure his arrest, the culmination of a lengthy U.S. pressure campaign for regime change in Caracas.
The move to seize the head of a sovereign nation for the U.S. justice system largely received backing from Republican lawmakers.
But it also raised questions from members of Congress about the Trump administration’s authority to do so and potential repercussions abroad — not to mention the duration of the U.S. presence in Venezuela, after President Donald Trump’s assertion that the U.S. will “run” that country for an indefinite period.
