Rodriguez to assume role of acting president of Venezuela
發佈日期: 2026-01-04 20:17
TVB News
The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court has ordered that Vice President Delcy Rodriguez assume the role of acting president of the country in the absence of Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro was seized early Saturday morning in an operation by U.S. forces, and at least 40 people were killed, according to the New York Times quoting an unnamed Venezuelan official.
This as U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations.
The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn New York where Nicolas Maduro is expected to be detained while awaiting trial.
This was the scene outside the centre amid the arrival of the Venezuelan leader plucked from power by U.S. forces.
The dramatic action capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on the South American nation and its leader and months of secret planning resulting in the most aggressive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Maduro supporters in the Venezuelan capital Caracas burn an American flag. Others chant "We want Maduro."
Here he is depicted as a superhero.
This government supporter said, "Today, the Venezuelan people rise up in outrage at the bombing of our homeland, affecting our people and our country, and to make matters worse, they have kidnapped our president."
During a televised speech from Delcy Rodriguez, a ticker at the bottom of the screen identified her as the vice-president.
But President Trump indicated that Rodriguez had been sworn in already as President of Venezuela, per the transfer of power outlined in the constitution. But state TV did not broadcast any swearing-in ceremony. This as celebrations took place in Florida as people chanted 'liberty' and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders.
ALEJANDRA ARRIETA, Venezuelan living in South America: "It's a combination of feelings, of course, you know. There's fears. There's excitement. There's so many years that we've been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the freedom."
Meanwhile a legal expert has pointed out that the U.S. has violated some international legal concepts by abducting a foreign leader.
ILAN KATZ, International law analyst: "First of all, of course there is a violation of state which is contemplated in the U.N. Charter article 2. There is also a different point to consider which is the head of state immunity, by which usually a head of state is granted even if he is charged by a crime during the time that he is in power. Also there is a provision of extraterritorial law enforcements, which is exactly what this case would be, it is a capture or abduction of a foreign leader on a foreign soil"
