Trump promised his voters that “America First” would stand against more foreign entanglements. Instead, he intervened with force and without congressional approval in a new frontier, a South American capital so far from Washington that Google Maps says it “can't seem to find a way there.”

President Donald Trump’s has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so.

It comes after Nicolás Maduro and his wife were seized from Caracas and flown to the US. They have since appeared at a New York court.

President Donald Trump says U.S. will run Venezuela after capturing Nicolás Maduro, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pentagon officials overseeing transition plans.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the operation in Venezuela was known as Operation Absolute Resolve and involved more than 150 aircraft across the Western Hemisphere. Caine said it was the "culmination of months of planning and rehearsal" adding that the operation could only have been conducted by the U.S. military.

Rep. Dan Goldman of New York accused Trump of using the same “illegal and unconstitutional tactics as Maduro” in the operation, saying that such action “not only undermines our democracy and violates our Constitution but also emboldens dictators around the world.”

In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening. Then Venezuela's foreign minister, Rodríguez directed Citgo — a subsidiary of the state oil company — to make a $500,

Vt., criticizes President Donald Trump's Venezuela strikes while calling Nicolás Maduro a dictator, marking a shift from his previous stance.