By Thebe Mabanga
Venezuela condemned U.S. “military aggression” on Saturday after President Donald Trump said America carried out large-scale strikes and that President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been “captured and flown out of the country” — a claim Venezuelan officials said they could not immediately verify.
In a statement released by the Venezuelan government shortly thereafter, it said it “rejects, repudiates and denounces” the “military aggression” by the United States.
Venezuela said the military attacks took place in the capital Caracas as well the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira. The South American oil-rich country said the action violated the United Nations Charter and threatened stability in the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
“The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, in an attempt to forcibly break the nation’s independence,” the statement said, adding,
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