Opposition leader Machado says she hasn’t spoken to Trump since attack as she vows to return to Venezuela – live | US attack on Venezuela
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More than a dozen media workers were detained Monday while covering events in the Venezuelan capital, including a march in support of the ousted president. Nicolas Maduro The Venezuelan press association said of the swearing-in ceremony of the country’s new legislature.
All 14 people detained in Caracas were later released, the National Union of Press Employees (SNTP) posted on X, but one of them was a foreign journalist who was deported.
According to Reuters, SNTP said that among those detained were 11 people working for international media organizations and one working for a national broadcaster.
Opening summary
Welcome to our live broadcast covering the ongoing developments following the US military’s weekend raid on Venezuela and the impeachment of the president. Nicolas Maduro from power.
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado In his first television interview since then, he said she had not spoken to him. Donald Trump Since October 2025.
“I actually talked to President Trump on October 10th. [Noble peace] the award was announced, [but] “Not since,” Machado said on Fox News. Machado, widely seen as Maduro’s most credible rival, left Venezuela last month for Norway to collect the award and has not returned since.
“I plan to return home as soon as possible,” he told Fox when asked about his plans to return to Venezuela.
Trump rejected the idea of working with Machado on Saturday, saying: “He has neither support nor respect within the country.” US media reported on Monday that a secret CIA assessment presented to Trump concluded that senior Maduro loyalists, including the interim president, had: Delcy RodriguezThey were in the best position to maintain stability.
Despite this, Machado welcomed the US actions as “a great step forward for humanity, freedom and human dignity”.
In other important developments:
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mike johnsonThe Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives insisted in a classified briefing to congressional leaders that “we are not at war” and “this is not a regime change” but a “request for a regime change in behavior.”
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Chuck SchumerThe Senate’s Democratic minority leader expressed displeasure with the briefing, saying the Trump administration’s “US plan to ‘govern Venezuela’ is vague, wishful thinking and unsatisfactory.”
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Unidentified drones reportedly appeared above the presidential palace in Venezuela’s capital on Monday night. heavy gunfire And spectator fever The regime’s security forces reacted to what they thought was another raid.
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Trump suggested to NBC News He said U.S. taxpayers could fund the rebuilding of Venezuela’s oil extraction and transportation infrastructure. “A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent, and the oil companies will spend that money and then get reimbursed from us or through revenue.”
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White House advisor Stephen Miller The Trump administration’s position on Greenland joining the United States was reaffirmed to CNN.
