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Trump says Venezuela raid shows US ‘not going to be pushed around’

By AFP 3 January 2026, 5:02 pm
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Smoke rises from Fort Tiuna, the main military garrison in Caracas, Venezuela, after multiple explosions were heard and aircraft swept through the area, January 3, 2026. (AP/Matias Delacroix)
Smoke rises from Fort Tiuna, the main military garrison in Caracas, Venezuela, after multiple explosions were heard and aircraft swept through the area, January 3, 2026. (AP/Matias Delacroix)

US President Donald Trump says after the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro that he will not allow anyone to “take over where he left off.”

“We’ll be involved in it very much. And we want to do liberty for the people,” Trump tells Fox News in a telephone interview, adding that the daring raid by US special forces shows that Washington is “not going to be pushed around.”

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