Security forces have boarded buses, searched phones and interrogated people, looking for evidence that they welcomed the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

US officials tracked Hugo Carvajal for two decades. Now in prison, he could testify about Maduro's alleged role in US-bound cocaine shipments.

Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Monday that then Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were injured after hitting their heads as they were fleeing US forces trying to arrest them,

Now begins what could be a lengthy legal process of pretrial motions, potential plea negotiations and possibly a jury trial of the authoritarian leader who ruled Venezuela for more than a decade.

The injuries occurred before U.S. Delta forces came into contact with the couple, after they bumped into the wall or door of a safe room, according to a person familiar with the matter and a U.S. official.

Democrats are grappling with how best to respond to the Trump administration’s military intervention in Venezuela, as the operation to capture Nicolas Maduro highlighted foreign policy differences within the party and distracted from its focus on affordability issues.

Former Venezuelan President Nicoás Maduro was arraigned Monday, declaring through a translator he is a "decent man," innocent of all charges, and "I am still president of my country."

Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores have pleaded not guilty to all charges during their first court appearance in their federal narco-terrorism case.

The raid was a triumph of the rule of law, a vindication for countless American victims of Maduro’s transnatioal criminal network, and a stunning reassertion of that most venerable of American foreign policy pinciples: umitigated primacy in America's own hemisphere.