BBC Verify has confirmed five locations that were targeted:
- Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base, an airfield known as La Carlota
- Fuerte Tiuna, a key military facility in Caracas
- Port La Guaira, Caracas’ main conduit to the Caribbean Sea
- Higuerote Airport, just east of Caracas
- Antenas El Volcan, a telecomms towers
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Who’s now in charge in Venezuela?
Venezuela’s Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez, who was part of Maduro’s inner circle, is now the interim president after being sworn in by the nation’s Supreme Court.
On Saturday, she demanded Maduro’s release, saying he was the “only president”.
Despite Trump’s claims the US would run Venezuela until “a safe and proper and judicious transition” was possible, Maduro’s allies remain in charge.
It is unclear exactly how the US plans to run Venezuela or who will be involved, but the US president said it would be a “group” effort.
He added that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been talking to Rodríguez, who had expressed her willingness to do “whatever the US asks”.
This is at odds with Rodríguez publicly refusing that Venezuela would become “a colony of an empire”.
Rubio, when asked on CBS News Face the Nation on Sunday whether the US could work with Maduro’s number two, said: “We’re going to make an assessment on the basis of what they do, not what they say publicly in the interim.”
He added that “if they don’t make the right decisions, the United States will retain multiple levers of leverage to ensure that our interests are protected”. Continue reading…