President Nicolás Maduro is in custody at a New York detention centre after he was captured during US strikes on Venezuela on Saturday.

Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, were taken from the capital Caracas to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to face drug trafficking-related charges.

He has previously denied being the leader of a drug cartel.

Venezuela has announced a state of national emergency and denounces the “military aggression” – here’s how the US operation unfolded

President Donald 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 would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”, Trump says.

Trump’s plans to run Venezuela remain unclear

Trump said on Saturday the US was going “to run the country until such time as we can do a safe and proper and judicious transition”.

It is unclear exactly how the US plans to run Venezuela or who will be involved, but Trump said it would be a “group” effort.

He added that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been talking to Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s vice president, who has since been named interim president by Venezuela’s Supreme Court.

Trump said she had expressed her willingness to do “whatever the US asks”.

Rodríguez later appeared on state television to demand Maduro’s release, saying he was the “only president”.

Trump also said he had not spoken to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, who he characterised as having neither the support nor the respect within Venezuela to become its leader.

Machado had earlier called for Edmundo González to assume power. She had rallied support for González in the 2024 presidential election and vote tallies released by her party suggest he won by a landslide

Source: BBC