Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in the wake of President Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela.

The dead-of-night operation by U.S. forces in Caracas to capture leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife early Saturday stunned the world and heightened concerns in Denmark and Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and thus part of NATO.

Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart, Jens Frederik Nielsen, blasted the president's comments and warned of catastrophic consequences. Numerous European leaders expressed solidarity with them.

"If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops," Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 on Monday. "That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War."

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that Denmark can count on the solidarity of all of Europe on the issue of Greenland, the Reuters news agency reports. "No member of should attack or threaten another member of the North Atlantic Treaty. Otherwise, NATO would lose its meaning if conflict or mutual conflicts occurred within the alliance," Tusk said.

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Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado slammed the nation's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, calling her "one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narcotrafficking" in the nation.

Speaking from an undisclosed location to Sean Hannity on Fox News in her first public comments since the weekend, Machado added that she plans to return to Venezuela "as soon as possible" after leaving undercover last month to accept her Nobel Peace Prize.

She also told Hannity that "a free Venezuela," with its largest oil reserves in the world, will become the "energy hub" of North and South America.

"We will turn Venezuela into the energy hub of the Americas," she said.

-- CBS/AFP

President Trump told NBC News on Monday that it could take some time before Venezuela can hold elections to replace Maduro, saying, "we have to nurse the country back to health" first.

"We have to fix the country first. You can't have an election. There's no way the people could even vote," the president told the outlet.

In the meantime, Mr. Trump said, a group of U.S. officials will be involved with overseeing Venezuela. The president has said his administration will "run" Venezuela, though it's not clear how extensive U.S. control over the country will be, and members of Maduro's regime remain in charge of the government.

Mr. Trump also told NBC News that oil companies could be reimbursed by the U.S. in some way if they return to Venezuela, as he pitches oil production as a way to mend the country's beleaguered economy.

"A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they'll get reimbursed by us or through revenue," Mr. Trump said.

He predicted that oil production could start ramping up in 18 months or less.

Some experts have predicted that it could take awhile for foreign oil firms to enter Venezuela, considering the high cost, the political uncertainty and the Venezuelan government's history of nationalizing its oil sector.

With former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in custody in New York, his former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez — a Maduro loyalist and leading figure within the regime for nearly eight years — has been sworn in as the acting president of Venezuela.

Since Maduro's ouster, Rodríguez is striking a delicate balance, telling the U.S. she wants lasting cooperation while also telling Venezuelans she condemns Maduro's capture as a kidnapping.

Meanwhile, opposition leader María Corina Machado applauded Maduro's capture — but she remains out of power.

Asked why Machado was not put in charge, Mr. Trump on Saturday said she lacks the support and respect of the Venezuelan people needed to lead them.

Read more here.

The top Democrat and top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee emerged from a classified briefing on Venezuela with divergent views on the operation to capture Maduro.

Rep. Brian Mast, the Florida Republican who chairs the committee, told reporters he doesn't believe the operation needed congressional approval, saying it was limited in scope and "done before breakfast." He also said he has "never heard anything said about a military presence" in the South American country.

Mast also said Venezuela's future "has to be charted forward by the Venezuelan people," and argued the administration is trying to avoid "a vacuum in the country" as it moves toward elections.

But Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the panel's top Democrat, told reporters after the classified briefing with administration officials: "I'm very concerned about what happens next, about the leadership, about democracy, about the willingness of making sure that the people of Venezuela will be involved in that democracy."

Asked if he's worried the Trump administration could take action in other countries without consulting Congress, he said: "It seems at every turn, Donald Trump is trying to figure out how he avoids Congress, and unfortunately, Congress allows him to do it."

A trader made more than $436,000 on a prediction market by appearing to anticipate former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture by U.S. forces last weekend, raising questions about the timing of the bet and the integrity of such online futures trading platforms. 

An anonymous user on Polymarket won the payout after placing a roughly $32,000 wager on Maduro's removal — just before President Trump announced the U.S. had ousted the former leader.

The longshot wager raises questions about the anonymous bettor's identity and potential access to inside information ahead of the U.S. operation to seize Maduro and his wife, legal and financial experts told CBS News.

Read more here.

Optimism and celebration abounded in Miami, home to the largest Venezuelan population in the United States, after the capture of former President Maduro. Over the weekend, hundreds poured into the streets in Doral, where 40% of residents are Venezuelan.

Andrea Ramos brought her two young children to witness history.

"Oh my God, I'm going to start crying," she said. "I didn't think I was going to live to see this happening, honestly."  

She left Venezuela in 2016 and hopes Maduro's capture will lead to freedom and democracy.

Roughly 8 million Venezuelans, more than a quarter of the country's population, have fled in the last 10 years, driven out by economic collapse and political instability.

But some anti-interventionist activists have also taken to the streets. And some expressed concern about what the future may hold for their homeland.

Watch the full story from the "CBS Evening News" here.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed new details Monday about the U.S. operation to capture and arrest Nicolás Maduro, describing a meticulously planned raid that caught the Venezuelan leader completely off guard.

Speaking to sailors, Hegseth said Maduro had no warning the U.S. was closing in until moments before American forces arrived.

"Nicolás Maduro got to meet some great Americans wearing night vision goggles three nights ago," Hegseth said. "He didn't know they were coming until three minutes before they arrived. In fact, his wife said, 'I think I hear aircraft outside.' They didn't know. You know why? Because every single part of that chain did their job."

Read more here.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared unimpressed with the Trump administration's plans for Venezuela after a briefing with administration officials.

The New York Democrat said the briefing, which was given to key lawmakers from both parties, "posed far more questions than it ever answered."

"Their plan for the U.S. running Venezuela is vague, based on wishful thinking and unsatisfying," Schumer told reporters in brief remarks.

He also said he did not receive assurances that missions like the one that captured Maduro over the weekend will not be attempted in other countries.

Earlier Monday, Schumer said he and several other senators plan to push for a vote on a war powers resolution to "stop any further military action in Venezuela without Congressional approval." The House and Senate voted on similar measures several times last year, but they did not pass.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said after a briefing with top Trump officials that the mission to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was legally justified.

The Louisiana Republican said it was a "decisive and justified action." He argued that the administration acted within its authority because "we are not at war" and "we are not occupying that country," and he believes the administration didn't need to notify Congress in advance because the mission was based on highly sensitive intelligence.

Johnson also lauded the decision to take Maduro into custody, saying he led a "criminal organization masquerading as a government."

"Now, he has learned what accountability looks like," he said.

Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida — who strongly supported the Trump administration's capture of Maduro — told CBS News that Venezuela should hold elections after a "period of transition."

Diaz-Balart told "The Takeout with Major Garrett" the next steps in Venezuela are "not a simple task" since members of Maduro's regime still remain in control of the country. He said he expects President Trump to use his leverage to ensure the existing leaders "start behaving in a way that is not against the security interests of the United States."

"The goal should be for elections so that the Venezuelan people can make the decision as to who they want to run the government," he said.

Venezuela is now led by Maduro's handpicked vice president, Delcy Rodriguez. She condemned Maduro's capture over the weekend, but later said she's open to working with the United States. Mr. Trump told The Atlantic on Sunday that "if she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro."

Mr. Trump has been dismissive of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, saying Saturday she likely doesn't have the "respect" to run the country.

Diaz-Balart said he is not concerned by those comments on Machado. He thinks that if Venezuela has elections, Machado will "probably" win, noting that she has "a history of fighting that regime," and her coalition's candidate was widely viewed as winning in 2024 — though Maduro's government declared him the winner.

Under heavy guard, former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown from a federal jail in Brooklyn to Manhattan on Monday morning to make their first court appearance since being captured by U.S. forces over the weekend.

Surrounded by Drug Enforcement Agency agents, the shackled Maduro shuffled from the helicopter to an armored vehicle, and was then driven to a federal courthouse, where he was greeted by the New York City Police Department and protesters — on one side of the street were those cheering Maduro's downfall, and on the other were those opposing his capture and detention.

Inside the courtroom, Maduro, clad in a prison jumpsuit, was initially defiant, declaring through a translator that he is a "decent man," innocent of all charges.

"I am still president of my country," he said. Meanwhile in Caracas, Maduro's vice president and longtime confidant Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as interim president.

Both Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty.

At one point, it seemed Maduro was trying to grandstand, but U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein cut him off, like he would anyone, saying he just needed to know Maduro's identity and if he understood his rights and the charges against him.

Read more here.

Representatives from petroleum giants Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil are planning to meet with the Trump administration later this week to discuss Venezuela, two sources confirmed to CBS News.

The meeting is expected to take place Thursday with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, one source familiar with the matter said.

The meetings come as President Trump pushes U.S. oil companies to invest in Venezuela's oil industry, following the U.S. military's capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.

Read more here.

The arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent oil company stocks higher on Monday. What does that mean for the price Americans will pay at the pump?

CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger told Tony Dokoupil on the "CBS Evening News" Monday that the U.S. involvement in Venezuelan oil is "a long term project," saying it could be years until Americans see a major impact.

"We have to understand that although Venezuela is sitting on over 300 billion barrels of oil, only three quarters of it is easy to extract," Schlesinger explained.

Schlesinger said that the oil refinery infrastructure in Venezuela needs "billions of dollars of investments by U.S. companies."

For now, she said, prices at the pump will be determined by how the global economy impacts demand for oil.

"If you look at last year — because the global economy slowed down — crude oil went down by over 22%. That led to lower gas prices," she said. "That's going to be the more important thing. What Americans can expect is the global economy will dominate."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the capture of Maduro over the weekend an "unauthorized military action" in a press conference Monday.

Jeffries added, "Yes, in fact, it is the case that Maduro is a bad guy, a dictator, someone who was not the legitimate head of government or head of state in Venezuela. We also know that the future of the Venezuelan people should be determined by the Venezuelan people, not by Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth or Stephen Miller."

The New York Democrat also rebuffed President Trump's suggestion that the U.S. should help to "run" Venezuela.

"These people don't even know how to run the United States of America, and we're supposed to believe that there's any credibility to the notion that the Trump administration is going to run Venezuela, a country of 30 million people in South America?" Jeffries said.

Hours after former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his initial appearance in court, legal experts told CBS News that Maduro's lawyers will likely argue his remarkable overnight capture by U.S. military forces was illegal — but that argument could prove challenging.

Tom Dupree, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush, predicted on "The Takeout with Major Garrett" that "the legality of this extraction, I don't think is going to play much of a role in this case."

"If the defense lawyers rest their defense on the idea that Maduro was illegally extracted from Venezuela, that's a losing argument for them," Dupree said, adding: "He's going to have to defend those charges on the merits."

CBS News Legal Analyst Caroline Polisi said she expects Maduro's lawyers to argue he was captured illegally, but those claims "will be disposed of rather quickly." After that, she said, it will be "your run-of-the-mill criminal drug trafficking conspiracy case." 

Polisi and Dupree pointed to the precedent of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who was captured by U.S. forces and charged with drug trafficking in 1990. Noriega argued his charges were invalid under the legal doctrine that heads of state are often immune from prosecution, but courts rejected that argument in his case.

Another complication for Maduro is that the U.S. and many other countries did not recognize him as Venezuela's legitimate president due to widespread allegations of fraud in the country's 2024 election.

"If American administrations do not recognize him as a legitimate ruler … there's no way a United States court is going to reject that view, declare Maduro the legitimate ruler and let him go on that basis," said Dupree. "That ain't gonna happen."

Following last weekend's capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, President Trump said that American oil companies would play a key role in reviving the country's languishing oil industry.

That could be easier said than done. Persuading U.S. energy players to return to Venezuela will require the Caracas government to reassert political stability in a country racked by years of political turmoil, experts told CBS News. 

Meanwhile, risk-averse American companies are unlikely to invest the billions of dollars required to upgrade Venezuela's creaking oil infrastructure until they have more clarity on the legal and fiscal landscape following Maduro's removal. 

Read more here.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suggested on Monday that nearly 200 Americans participated in the raid on Caracas on Saturday morning.

Speaking to a crowd of sailors and shipbuilders in Newport News, Virginia, Hegseth said that "nearly 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas" and they "grabbed an indicted individual wanted by American justice in support of law enforcement without a single American killed."

"Establishing deterrence," he added.

It was not immediately clear whether Hegseth's figure was just the force that set foot on the ground in Venezuela or if it also included others, such as servicemembers who flew the more than 150 aircraft that took part in the raid.

-CBS/AP

American forces plan to interdict an evading oil tanker that has historically carried Venezuelan crude oil and was sanctioned by the Treasury Department, according to two U.S. officials with knowledge of the plans.

Since last month, U.S. forces have pursued the Marinera, a crude oil tanker formerly known as the Bella 1, as the U.S. continues its pressure campaign against Venezuela. Since September, the United States has steadily turned the screws, accusing former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government of using multiple vessels to move drugs north toward American shores. 

Two U.S. intelligence officials also said Venezuelan officials had discussed placing armed military personnel on tankers — disguising them as civilians for defense purposes — as well as portable Soviet-era air defense systems. The discussions took place before the capture of Maduro and his wife by U.S. special forces on Friday and into the early hours of Saturday morning, the officials told CBS News.

Read more here

The lawyers for Cilia Flores said she is in "good spirits" and that the "first lady is aware that there is a long road ahead and is prepared."

"We look forward to reviewing and challenging the evidence the government has," Mark E. Donnelly told CBS News in a statement after Flores' first court appearance on Monday. "While we would love to present our side now, we will wait to do so in court at the appropriate time."

Maduro's son, Venezuelan congressman Nicolás Maduro Guerra, criticized the Trump administration and its operation to capture his father, calling it "a direct threat to global political stability."

"If we normalize the kidnapping of a head of state, no country is safe," Maduro Guerra said during what was his first appearance since the operation on Saturday. "Today it's Venezuela. Tomorrow, it could be any nation that refuses to submit. This is not a regional problem. It is a direct threat to global political stability."

In his speech to parliament, Maduro Guerra, also known as "Nicolasito," demanded that his parents be returned by American authorities and called on international support, while also denouncing his name appearing in the indictment.

The speech comes as the Trump administration has pushed Venezuela's government to fall in line with its vision for the oil-rich nation.

The indictment against Maduro Guerra's parents has named four other co-defendants, including the congressman himself and Venezuela's interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, none of whom have been taken into custody.

-CBS/AP

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were arraigned Monday in New York on federal drug trafficking and other charges following their capture in a dramatic U.S. military operation over the weekend.

But virtually all of the ousted leader's inner circle — including some with whom he's accused of running a cartel that has allegedly smuggled tons of cocaine into the U.S. — remain in their posts.

Read more here.

Energy industry stocks and oil prices are rising after the U.S. seized Maduro and his wife. In Wall Street trading on Monday, shares in Chevron — the only U.S. oil company operating in Venezuela — jumped $8.51, or 5.5%, to $164.49. Exxon Mobil's stock increased 2.5%, and ConocoPhillips gained 3.2% 

Shares in other U.S. energy sector players also rose, with oil services giants Halliburton and Schlumberger both adding more than 10%. The price of U.S. crude rose 1.4% to $58.13 per barrel, while Brent crude, the international standard, climbed 1.2% to $61.50.

Read more here.

Cilia Flores suffered "significant injuries" during her capture by U.S. forces, her lawyer Mark E. Donnelly said in court on Monday.

He said he believes she has a fracture or severe bruising on her ribs "during her abduction."

The judge directed prosecutors to ensure that she gets the proper care.

Reporters inside the courtroom noticed that Flores' temple and eyelid were bandaged. The judge directed prosecutors to ensure that she gets the proper care.

The judge presiding over Maduro's court appearance Monday got his law degree half a decade before Maduro, 63, was born.

And Maduro isn't the first former head of state to come before Alvin Hellerstein, a 92-year-old senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  

Hellerstein has repeatedly rejected efforts by President Trump to remove his New York State criminal case over "hush money" payments to federal court, though a federal appeals court recently ruled he must reconsider his decisions in that case in light of a 2024 Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

Hellerstein, who was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1998, presided over an American Civil Liberties Union effort that challenged the deportation of two Venezuelans last year. Hellerstein granted a temporary restraining order protecting deportees in the Southern District of New York from being removed prior to receiving due process. The case challenged the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.

Hellerstein was assigned to a related 2014 case and oversaw a superseding indictment naming Maduro in 2020.

U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz told the United Nations on Monday that "we are not occupying a country," reiterating Rubio's comments over the weekend that "there is no war against Venezuela or its people."

"This was a law enforcement operation in furtherance of lawful indictments that have existed for decades," Waltz said, according to the readout. "The United States arrested a narcotrafficker who is now going to stand trial in the United States in accordance with the rule of law for the crimes he's committed against our people for 15 years."

Waltz compared the operation to the 1989 action against Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.

"This law enforcement action was directed consistent with the President of the United States' responsibility as Commander in Chief to protect Americans at home and abroad, against a fugitive who is directly responsible for narco-terrorism that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and created destabilizing violence throughout our hemisphere," Waltz said.  

Maduro said in federal court Monday in lower Manhattan "I'm not guilty."

"I'm innocent. I'm not guilty — I'm a decent man," Maduro said through an interpreter, adding that he is "still president of my country."

His wife also pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking and weapons charges before U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein.

The two were transported under heavy security via helicopter from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to a Manhattan heliport and taken by motorcade to the courthouse hours before the proceedings.

Read more here.

Maduro entered the courtroom shortly after 12 p.m. ET wearing prison garb, headphones for translations and feet shackled. His wife had the same clothes on. Both their hands were unshackled.

Maduro shook hands with his attorney.  

Maduro will be represented by Barry Pollack, a seasoned trial lawyer who represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a former in-house accountant for Enron, according to a court filing.

Pollack works for the firm Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP. He helped broker the plea deal that saw Assange plead guilty in 2024 to a single felony count for publishing U.S. military secrets.  

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday that he remains "deeply concerned that rules of international law have not been respected" in regard to the U.S. military operation in Venezuela.

In a statement read before the UN Security Council, he also touched on potential consequences of the operation for Venezuelans.

"I am deeply concerned about the possible intensification of instability in the country, the potential impact on the region, and the precedent it may set for how relations between and among states are conducted," Guterres said. 

He added: "I welcome and am ready to support all efforts aimed at assisting Venezuelans in finding a peaceful way forward."

CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger said on "CBS Mornings" that in the short term, the operation in Venezuela will not impact American gas prices.

"Longer term, maybe," she said. "Maybe there will be more gas on the market, but there are so many factors at play. It's not as easy as we extract this person and all of a sudden our prices at the pumps go down."

Venezuela is estimated to have 303 billion barrels of crude oil still in the ground, which is approximately 20% of the world's reserves.

Schlesinger said that while Venezuela has a large reserve, "about three-quarters of that is very hard to extract from the ground and actually refine."

"So when we say it is big, it is big over the long term if there is an investment," she said. 

Twenty-five years ago, Venezuela produced 3 million barrels per day. Now it only produces 1 million barrels a day.

Schlesinger explained that Chevron is the only major U.S. oil company in Venezuela currently, saying: "Let's say we want to get other companies involved, that would require billions of dollars of infrastructure investment. Here is the big question: will these companies want to do that if this is a much longer-term play? It's not going to be an immediate turn around and that's what we don't know."

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's former vice president, was sworn in Monday as the new interim president while Maduro awaited arraignment in New York. 

Rodríguez, 56, is a powerful figure and longtime confidant of Maduro, and she has been backed thus far by Venezuela's military commanders. She served as Venezuela's vice president from 2018 until Sunday. Her brother Jorge Rodríguez also holds a senior role in the country, as president of the National Assembly, Venezuela's legislature, which has long been controlled by the Maduro regime.

Rodríguez quickly denounced the U.S. operation as a violation of the United Nations' founding charter and a unilateral attempt to force regime change on Saturday, but soon adopted a more conciliatory tone.

Read more here about the longtime member of Maduro's inner circle, and her chances of retaining any power as the Trump administration determines its next moves in Venezuela.

Mark Donnelly, a lawyer based in Houston, will represent Flores, according to a court filing.

Donnelly, who works for the firm Parker Sanchez and Donnelly, is licensed to practice in Texas. He worked for 12 years at the Justice Department, including as senior adviser to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas and as head of the office's fraud division, according to a biography from his firm.

Donnelly also was a prosecutor with the Harris County District Attorney's Office for eight years.

Protesters have started to gather across from the courthouse in lower Manhattan where Maduro and his wife will be arraigned at noon. There is loud chanting, flags and people banging on cans. Some people have called out "Maduro!" A number of signs read: "Free Pres. Maduro and Cilia Flores Now!", "No War for Venezuelan Oil" and "U.S.A. Hands off Venezuela."

There is also a very small contingent of counter-protesters. One is waving a Trump flag on one side and a Venezuelan flag on the other. Police have created a barricade separating them from the pro-Maduro protest.

Security is high and there is a wide perimeter around the courthouse.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that the Americas "do not belong" to any power and rejected U.S. intervention in other countries.

"We categorically reject intervention in the internal matters of other countries," Sheinbaum said, according to Reuters.

President Trump had described the U.S. operation against Nicolas Maduro as an update of the Monroe Doctrine: the 1823 declaration by fifth U.S. president, James Monroe, that Latin America was closed to other powers, which at the time meant Europe.

Sheinbaum hit back on Monday, saying: "The Americas do not belong to any doctrine or any power. The American continent belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that comprise it."

She also said, "It is necessary to reaffirm that in Mexico the people rule, and that we are a free and sovereign country-cooperation, yes; subordination and intervention, no."

—CBS/AFP 

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Venezuela, says Venezuelans thank President Trump and that "the freedom of Venezuela is near."

"The brave people of Venezuela took to the streets in 30 countries and 130 cities around the world to celebrate a huge step that marks the inevitability and imminence of the transition in Venezuela," she said in a statement on social media Monday.

"We Venezuelans thank President Donald Trump (@POTUS) and his administration for their firmness and determination in upholding the law," she said. "Venezuela will be the main ally of the United States in matters of security, energy, democracy, and human rights."

"The freedom of Venezuela is near, and soon we will celebrate on our land," she said. "We will shout, pray, and embrace as a family, because our children will return home."

AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos proliferated on social media in the hours following Nicolás Maduro's capture. Several of the images quickly went viral, fueling false information online. 

CBS News analyzed circulating images by comparing dubious images to verified content and using publicly available tools such as reverse image search. In some cases, CBS News ran images through AI detection tools, which can be inconsistent or inaccurate but can still help flag possibly manipulated content.

One photo purporting to show Maduro after his capture was shared widely, including by the mayor of Coral Gables Florida, Vince Lago, and in a joint Instagram post by two popular conservative content accounts with over 6 million combined followers. Using Google's SynthID tool, CBS News Confirmed team found the photo was likely edited or generated using Google AI. 

Read more here.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Monday he would "take up arms," after threats from President Trump.

"I swore never to touch a weapon again since the peace pact of 1989 but for the homeland I would take up arms that I don't want," Petro said on X.

Mr. Trump mentioned Petro on Sunday, saying Colombia is "very sick too, run by a very sick man."

The president said he felt Petro is "not going to be doing it for very long," and when asked if he would carry out a military operation there, responded, "Sounds good to me."

The response to the operation in Venezuela has been mixed, with some Venezuelans celebrating the removal of Nicolás Maduro and others accusing the U.S. of trying to steal the country's oil.

Amid the uncertainty of what will happen next, Venezuelan residents rushed to grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations to stock up, CBS News' Lilia Luciano reported from the country's border with Colombia. 

Nailin Pena – who is among the millions of Venezuelans who fled the Maduro regime, and is now in Colombia – told CBS News she hopes to return, but is skeptical of interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez and doesn't believe things will change. 

Meanwhile, supporters of Maduro protested in the streets of Venezuela, saying, "Our president is Nicolás Maduro."

Sen. Tim Kaine said on "CBS Mornings" Monday that the administration needs to "explain why this is legal" as officials are set to brief top lawmakers on the Venezuela operation later Monday.

"I believe it's an illegal action because we're not supposed to be at war without a vote of Congress.," Kaine said. "They need to explain what the purpose is… And they need to explain to the American public why this is a smart thing to do."

The Virginia Democrat said "there's a tall order, many questions that the administration needs to answer, and thus far they've not even been willing to do it in a single public hearing."

Kaine said there are "two levers that we intend to use" in Congress, pointing to a war powers resolution that he said will come up for a vote this week in the Senate. He outlined that the second lever would come through the Defense Department funding bill.

"So you'll likely see both power of the purse, but also just a straight-out war powers resolution to say, 'no military action without a vote of Congress,' which is what the Constitution requires," Kaine said. 

Kaine said, though the president could veto a war powers resolution should it reach his desk, "we think a strong congressional vote, even if President Trump chooses to veto it, will send him a message that may cause him to rethink the foolishness that he's engaged upon."

Retired general H.R. McMaster, who served as President Trump's national security adviser during his first term and is now a CBS News contributor, said he hopes "that we see more clarity" on the administration's goals in Venezuela.

"I think what the administration is trying to do now is to use coercive diplomacy to do something short of an invasion to get the political outcome they want," McMaster said Monday on "CBS Mornings."

McMaster said he isn't concerned about Mr. Trump "putting boots on the ground" in Venezuela, which the president has said he's not afraid to do. McMaster noted "it would take a significant commitment from our nation" to do so.

He also said, "I wish they would talk more about the restoration of sovereignty in the Venezuelan people."

"There is a military dimension of this, there's an economic dimension to this but there's also a moral dimension to this," he said. "And what we should make clear is that what we want to see in Venezuela is a restoration of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people." 

Watch the full interview here.

Maduro and his wife were transported via helicopter from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to the Wall Street heliport this morning, and then were taken by motorcade to the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan where they are due to be arraigned at noon.

There is high security at the courthouse. Barricades line the street, and a long line has already formed of people waiting to get inside.

Maduro faces narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine and weapons charges. He could face up to life in prison.

A war powers vote is on the horizon as lawmakers return to Washington this week.

Congress has not authorized military force against Venezuela, and the Trump administration did not notify lawmakers of the plan ahead of time. 

Most Democrats and a few Republicans have sought to limit Mr. Trump's authority to strike Venezuela and suspected drug-trafficking boats in the region. But the Senate and House have each failed twice to limit Mr. Trump's authority to continue the military campaign. Mr. Trump has called the South American country's role in drug smuggling a threat to national security. 

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said the Senate will vote this week on his latest war powers resolution. He introduced the measure in early December, days after the revelation that the U.S. killed two people who survived the initial blast of a Sept. 2 strike in the Caribbean Sea. 

Kaine's measure would require "the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress." 

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The Swiss government said Monday it has decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolas Maduro or his associates "with immediate effect" — a decision reached after Maduro was seized in Caracas and brought to New York to face narcotrafficking charges.

Describing the situation as "volatile," the Swiss government said in a statement it wanted "to ensure that any illicitly acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland in the current situation."

It also said, "should future legal proceedings reveal that the funds were illicitly acquired, Switzerland will endeavour to ensure that they benefit the Venezuelan people."

The move, decided under Switzerland's Federal Act on the Freezing and the Restitution of Illicit Assets Held by Foreign Politically Exposed Persons, comes in addition to existing sanctions on Venezuela in force since 2018, which also include asset freezes, the government said. 

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from what prosecutors said was his role in a scheme to import "thousands of tons" of cocaine into the United States and enrich himself, his family and senior members of the Venezuelan government.

The indictment was unsealed Saturday by Attorney General Pam Bondi after Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken into military custody in an overnight operation and brought to the U.S. to face criminal charges. 

"They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts," Bondi said.

Maduro, Flores and four others are named as defendants in the indictment, including Maduro's son, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro.

Maduro faces four charges: narco-terrorism conspiracy; cocaine importation conspiracy; possession of machineguns and destructive devices; and conspiracy to possess machineguns and destructive devices.

Flores is accused of brokering a meeting between a large-scale drug trafficker and the director of Venezuela's National Anti-Drug Office and allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

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Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday night, President Trump said he has not spoken directly with Venezuela's acting leader, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, but said she was cooperating with the U.S.

"We're in charge" of Venezuela right now, Mr. Trump said, 

He said the U.S. had been prepared for further military action in Venezuela but it hadn't been needed so far, adding that this could change "if they don't behave."

The president said he's spoken with several U.S. oil companies about commitments to rebuilding Venezuela's infrastructure, saying they "wanna go in so bad." 

Following the action in Venezuela, the Trump administration is alluding to possible action elsewhere in the region.

In remarks aboard Air Force One Sunday night, Mr. Trump mentioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro, saying Colombia is "very sick too, run by a very sick man."

Mr. Trump said he felt Petro is "not going to be doing it for very long," and when asked if he would carry out a military operation there as well, the president responded, "Sounds good to me."

Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a new stern warning to the Cuban government, a longtime U.S. adversary and one of Venezuela's most important allies and trading partners. Rubio, in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," said he thinks "they're in a lot of trouble."

"I'm not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard," Rubio said. "But I don't think it's any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro."

He said Cuban officials were with Maduro in Venezuela ahead of his capture.

"It was Cubans that guarded Maduro," Rubio said. "He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards," adding that Cuban bodyguards were also in charge of "internal intelligence" in Maduro's government.

The Cuban government said Sunday that 32 Cubans were killed during the U.S. military operation to capture Maduro.

Mr. Trump said that the Cuban economy, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, is in tatters and will slide further now with the ouster of Maduro, who provided the Caribbean island subsidized oil.

"It's going down," Mr. Trump said of Cuba. "It's going down for the count."

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"That's enough now," Greenland Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen said on social media late Sunday after repeated threats from President Trump to annex the autonomous Danish territory.

"No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation. We are open to dialogue. We are open to discussions. But this must happen through the proper channels and with respect for international law," Nielsen wrote.

Since returning to White House a year ago, Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed that making Greenland part of the United States would serve U.S. national security interests, given its strategic location in the Arctic. Greenland is also rich in key critical minerals used in high-tech sectors.

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine published Sunday, Mr. Trump reiterated his wish to take over Greenland. "We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense," he told the magazine.

Sunday night aboard Air Force One, he told reporters, "It's so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place." 

"We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it," he said.

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Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who is serving as acting leader following President Nicolás Maduro's capture, said in a statement Sunday night that Venezuela seeks "peace and peaceful coexistence."

"Our country aspires to live without external threats, in an environment of respect and international cooperation," Rodriguez said. "We believe that global peace is built by guaranteeing the peace of each nation first."

Rogriguez said she hopes to have a "balanced and respectful" relationship with the U.S. "based on sovereign equality and non-interference."

"We extend the invitation to the U.S. government to work together on a cooperation agenda, oriented to shared development, within the framework of international legality and strengthen a lasting community coexistence," she added.

"President Donald Trump: our peoples and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war."

Trump administration officials will give some members of Congress a classified briefing on Venezuela at 5:30 p.m. Monday, according to multiple sources. 

Those invited include chairs and ranking members from the Senate Foreign Relations, Senate Armed Services, House Foreign Affairs and House Armed Services committees, as well as the so-called Gang of Eight — the chair and ranking member of the House and Senate intelligence committees and the four leaders of the House and Senate. 

The briefing is set to be delivered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine, according to an administration official. 

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, being held in different sections of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a federal facility with the capacity for holding high-security defendants. 

MDC is known for having housed other high-profile defendants including Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Law enforcement sources tell CBS News that Maduro is being held on one of the top floors of MDC. They say he is not being held in isolation, but is being held with other higher profile inmates.

His status likely means protection from the general population, said Marc Fernich, an attorney who represented notorious drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was held at a federal jail a few miles away in Manhattan. 

"If Maduro is placed in round-the-clock solitary, it will be for his own protection or to guard against suicide," Fernich said.

He added that the Brooklyn jail currently houses many members of Venezuela's most well-known transnational gang, Tren de Aragua.

There are at least four detained Americans being held in Venezuela, according to a hostage advocate familiar with the situation. The U.S. government is aware that some Americans who had been detained in Venezuela prior to the holidays remain in custody there.

Asked on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" about reports of previously detained Americans still being held in Venezuela, Sen. Chris Van Hollen said, "I've not gotten an update from the administration on those detained Americans. But certainly, my view is we should work to bring back every American who is wrongfully detained overseas."

He added: "My view is that the administration should designate as wrongfully detained any Americans that the Venezuelan Government has seized wrongfully."

President Trump on Saturday called Maduro an "illegitimate dictator" and alleged he "was the kingpin of a vast criminal network responsible for trafficking colossal amounts of deadly and illicit drugs into the United States." 

In a U.S. military operation that struck Venezuelan military facilities in the early hours of Saturday, Maduro and his wife were captured and flown to the U.S. to face charges. 

Mr. Trump said, "Now, Maduro will never again be able to threaten an American citizen or anybody from Venezuela."

"The dictator and terrorist Maduro is finally gone in Venezuela," the president said. "People are free."