NYC pols react to Trump’s Venezuela takeover and Maduro’s arrest, demand more answers from White House

New York officials, while offering no sympathy for deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, blasted the Trump administration Saturday for its unilateral action to bomb the South American nation and apprehend both Maduro and his wife on a criminal indictment.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he had been briefed on the operation as well as the U.S. Justice Department’s plan to prosecute and imprison Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Manhattan within the Southern District of New York.