Cuba confirms 32 intelligence personnel killed in U.S. operation that seized Maduro, exposing extensive Cuban involvement in Venezuela's military systems.

Delcy Rodriguez, who is next in the presidential line of succession, served as Nicolas Maduro's vice president since 2018.

Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, and his wife are expected to appear on Monday at a federal court in Manhattan to face charges of drug-trafficking and other crimes, two days after they were captured during a U.S. military raid in Caracas that followed a monthslong campaign by the Trump administration to drive out Mr. Maduro.

Initially, Trump defended his military operations near Venezuela as keeping drugs out of the US, although experts say the cocaine that passes through Venezuela winds up mostly in Europe while fentanyl is sourced from China.

The United States' military operation on Jan. 3 in Venezuela is of interest to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living here, especially Florida.

If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy.

Venezuela claims U.S. military strikes killed security forces “in cold blood” before a pre-dawn raid in Caracas that ended with Nicolás Maduro’s capture.

New imagery obtained by Business Insider shows widespread damage at a military complex in the southern part of Caracas.