Donald Trump says the US launched strikes on Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro
President Trump says the US is going to “run” Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”
US oil companies will fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”, he adds
He says no US servicemen were killed in the operation and the US is “ready” to stage a second “and much larger” attack on the country if needed
Trump, a sharp critic of the US invasion of Iraq, now seems to be in the business of nation-building, our North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher writes
Trump earlier shared a photo he said was of Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima. The image shows him blindfolded and wearing ear defenders
Maduro has been indicted in New York on drugs and weapons charges – the US attorney general says he’ll “face the full wrath of American justice”. Maduro has previously denied being the leader of drug cartel
Venezuela has declared a national emergency, denouncing “extremely serious military aggression” – BBC Verify identifies locations hit in the attack
