New Delhi |Jan 04, 2026 |  External Affairs Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro Kidnapped by president of United States of America Donald Trump through a military action on 03 January 2025. Venezuela plunged into its gravest crisis in decades after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that American forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores during a large-scale military operation, triggering international alarm, regional mobilisations, and fierce condemnation from Caracas. In a series of statements posted on Truth Social and later reiterated in interviews with U.S. media, President Trump asserted that the United States had carried out a “large-scale strike against Venezuela” and that President Maduro and his wife were “captured and flown out of the country” as part of an operation conducted with U.S. law enforcement and military units. Trump later confirmed that the two were being transported to New York , where Maduro faces long-standing ...