Summary: Operation 'Absolute Resolve': US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an early morning raid and sent him to the US to face criminal charges.

No servicemembers or military equipment was lost

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted.

Trump: "We're going to stay [in Venezuela] until such time as the proper transition can take place."

Caine: "Operation Absolute Resolve, was discreet, precise, and conducted during the darkest hours of January 2nd"

Hegseth: Maduro "effed around and found out"

Trump: "[Colombia's Pedro] is making cocaine and they're sending it into the United States, so he does have to watch his ass," 

Rubio: "if I were in power in Cuba, I'd be very worried right now" 

Maduro has arrived on US soil

The international reaction has been predictably mixed.

Brazil, Russia, Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba rejected the US military action, with some calling for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

EU leadership shrugs after long lecturing the world on the so-called "rules-based order"...

US Democrats have raised questions over the legality of the strikes

Trump dismissed his congressional critics as "weak and stupid people."

This operation will be justified as executing the criminal warrant and responding to an international drug cartel, a very similar legal framework to the one used against Noriega in 1989. There is precedent supporting that earlier operation, which will now be used to defend the actions in Venezuela.

Trump: "The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot. They're now call it the Donroe Doctrine, but I don't know."