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Rubio says no further action as Maduro faces U.S. trial

Maduro arrested and to face trial

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio does not expect any additional military or political action against Venezuela following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, according to Republican Senator Mike Lee.

British state media reported Lee said Rubio confirmed Maduro’s arrest and impending prosecution in the United States during a phone call with Rubio, who indicated the operation’s objectives had been fulfilled.

He said US strikes carried out during the operation were intended solely to protect forces executing the arrest warrant.

Earlier, Lee had publicly questioned what constitutional authority justified the action in the absence of a formal declaration of war or congressional approval for the use of military force.



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26 COMMENTS

  1. When an operation seems too clean, too fast, or too coordinated, it often suggests internal cooperation, not just external force
    About sums it up
    If in fact these reports turn out to be true

  2. The first of to follow death throws of the US vulture. I hope All countries start to sale all their US Tbonds…..
    Scum of the earth !!

  3. crikey. trump and co mean business.

    a shame we can’t do the same with dishonest nz politicians.

    have we got 123 jail cells spare?

  4. No further action? I thought it was about the drug cartells?
    Na, it is about regime change to get the oil.
    USA…Ungodly Satanic Abomination

  5. Arrest warrant, what a joke. Abducting a sovereign head of state is a crime. you low lives and you know it too. Heopfully people in the US will finally wake up and realise they don’t swap democratic governments, every few years but instead, crime syndicates.

      • You mean rule of law? Well funnily enough yes I am. So what are you, a defender of anarchy and imperialism? That’s a path, as history has shown, again and again, that always ends in ruin.

        • No, I mean the ‘rules based system’ the one that has given us mass migration under the guise of ‘International Law’.
          I guess you love your diversity, like all the other boomers.

      • I’ll add too if you are going to use terms like arrest warrant and indictment, then those are “legal definitions”, so either play by the law or your don’t. The US is trying to apply a legal veneer to its criminality and hypocrisy.

  6. This looks to have been pushed by Marco Rubio from whom Venezuela sending oil to Cuba was was obviously a big factor. There must have been a lot of internal “discussion” in Trump’s cabinet about it, with many expressing “unhappiness” about doing anything more.

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