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The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court ordered connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) that Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez presume the relation of acting president of the state successful the lack of Nicolás Maduro, who was detained aboriginal Saturday (January 3) greeting in an cognition by U.S. forces.
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Hours aft an “stunning” subject cognition that plucked the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from powerfulness and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday (January 3, 2026) that the U.S. would tally Venezuela astatine slightest temporarily and pat its immense lipid reserves to merchantability to different nations. The level carrying the deposed person and his woman arrived successful New York, wherever they are to look “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges.
Following are reactions to Saturday’s U.S. strikes connected Venezuela.
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON
“The modulation to travel indispensable beryllium peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the volition of the Venezuelan people. We anticipation that President Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, elected successful 2024, volition beryllium capable to guarantee this modulation arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” Macron wrote connected X.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR FRIEDRICH MERZ
Merz said the ineligible appraisal of the U.S. cognition is analyzable and “we volition instrumentality our time” to measure it, adding that principles of planetary instrumentality indispensable apply. He urged that “a modulation to a authorities legitimised by elections indispensable beryllium ensured” and warned that “political instability indispensable not originate successful Venezuela”.
SPANISH PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ
“Spain did not admit the Maduro regime. But neither volition it admit an involution that violates planetary instrumentality and pushes the portion toward a skyline of uncertainty and belligerence”, Sanchez wrote connected X.
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES
“These developments represent a unsafe precedent,” Guterres’ spokesperson said. “The Secretary-General continues to stress the value of afloat respect - by each - of planetary law, including the UN Charter. He’s deeply acrophobic that the rules of planetary instrumentality person not been respected.”
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
“Congratulations, President @realDonaldTrump for your bold and historical enactment connected behalf of state and justice. I salute your decisive resoluteness and the superb enactment of your brave soldiers.”
CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY
“China is profoundly shocked and powerfully condemns the usage of unit by the U.S. against a sovereign state and the usage of unit against the president of a country,” a ministry connection said.
SOUTH AFRICAN DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
“South Africa calls connected the UN Security Council, the assemblage mandated to support planetary bid and security, to urgently convene to code this situation,” a connection by the South African section of planetary relations said.
RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTRY
“This morning, the United States committed an enactment of equipped aggression against Venezuela. This is profoundly concerning and condemnable.”
“The pretexts utilized to warrant specified actions are unfounded. Ideological animosity has prevailed implicit concern pragmatism and the willingness to physique relationships based connected spot and predictability.”
“In the existent situation, it is important, archetypal and foremost, to forestall further escalation and to absorption connected uncovering a mode retired of the concern done dialogue.”
ARGENTINE PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI, IN MEDIA INTERVIEW “What we person to recognize is that it’s the illness of the authorities of a dictator that was rigging elections, that successful the past predetermination was severely defeated and, contempt that, helium clung connected to power.”
“That’s wherefore I’d accidental that today’s quality is fantabulous quality for the escaped world.”
MEXICAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
“The Mexican authorities powerfully condemns and rejects the subject actions carried retired unilaterally successful caller hours by the equipped forces of the United States of America against targets successful the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, successful wide usurpation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations.”
CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ANITA ANAND
“Canada calls on each parties to respect planetary instrumentality and we basal by the radical of Venezuela and their tendency to unrecorded successful a peaceful and antiauthoritarian society. Canada is engaging with its planetary partners and monitoring developments closely.”
PARAGUAY GOVERNMENT
“Paraguay is intimately monitoring existent developments successful Venezuela and calls for prioritizing antiauthoritarian means that warrant an orderly transition.”
BOLIVIA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY
“Bolivia reiterates its committedness to peace, democracy, and coordination with the planetary assemblage for humanitarian assistance, the extortion of the civilian population, and enactment for a credible and definitive process of organization reconstruction”.
PANAMA’S PRESIDENT JOSE RAUL MULINO ON X
“In airy of the events that took spot aboriginal this greeting successful Venezuela, my authorities reiterates our presumption successful favour of antiauthoritarian trials and successful favour of accepting the morganatic wishes of the Venezuelan people, arsenic expressed emphatically astatine the polls, wherever Edmundo Gonzalez was elected.”
PERU’S FOREIGN MINISTRY
“The Government of Peru calls for a punctual solution to the governmental concern successful Venezuela, successful favour of a modulation with afloat respect for planetary instrumentality and quality rights, arsenic good arsenic attraction to the morganatic and genuine aspirations of the Venezuelan radical to unrecorded successful ideology with the enactment of the determination community.”
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER KEIR STARMER
“I privation to found the facts first. I privation to talk to President Trump. I privation to talk to allies. I tin beryllium perfectly wide that we were not progressive ... and I ever accidental and judge we should each uphold planetary law,” Starmer said successful a connection to British broadcasters.
BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA ON X
“The bombings on Venezuelan territory and the seizure of its president transverse an unacceptable line. These acts correspond a sedate affront to Venezuela’s sovereignty and yet different highly unsafe precedent for the full planetary community.”
“Attacking countries successful flagrant usurpation of planetary instrumentality is the archetypal measurement toward a satellite of violence, chaos, and instability, wherever the instrumentality of the strongest prevails implicit multilateralism.”
UKRAINE’S FOREIGN MINISTER ANDRII SYBIHA
“Ukraine has consistently defended the close of nations to unrecorded freely, escaped of dictatorship, oppression, and quality rights violations. The Maduro authorities has violated each specified principles successful each respect. We basal for further developments successful accordance with the principles of planetary law, prioritising democracy, quality rights, and the interests of Venezuelans.”
DENMARK PRIME MINISTER METTE FREDERIKSEN
“The Danish authorities is intimately monitoring the concern successful Venezuela with our allies. Now is the clip for de-escalation. International instrumentality indispensable beryllium respected.”
BELARUS PRESIDENT ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO
“The President of Belarus CATEGORICALLY CONDEMNS the enactment of American aggression against Venezuela. Alexander Lukashenko spoke astir the consequences conscionable precocious successful an interrogation with American journalists,” Belta quality bureau cited Natalia Eismont, spokesperson for Lukashenko, arsenic saying.
ECUADOR PRESIDENT DANIEL NOBOA
“The clip is coming for each the narco-Chavista criminals. Their operation volition yet illness crossed the full continent,” helium wrote connected X.
URUGUAY FOREIGN MINISTRY
“Uruguay rejects, arsenic it ever has, subject involution by 1 state successful the territory of different and reaffirms the value of respecting planetary instrumentality and the UN Charter, successful peculiar the basal rule that States indispensable refrain from resorting to the menace oregon usage of unit against the territorial integrity oregon governmental independency of immoderate State, oregon successful immoderate different mode inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT URSULA VON DER LEYEN
“Following precise intimately the concern successful Venezuela. We basal by the radical of Venezuela and enactment a peaceful and antiauthoritarian transition. Any solution indispensable respect planetary instrumentality and the UN Charter.”
CHILE’S PRESIDENT GABRIEL BORIC ON X
“As the Government of Chile, we explicit our interest and condemnation of the subject actions of the United States successful Venezuela and telephone for a peaceful solution to the superior situation affecting the country.”
COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO ON X
“The Government of the Republic of Colombia views with heavy interest the reports of explosions and antithetic aerial enactment successful caller hours successful the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, arsenic good arsenic the resulting escalation of hostility successful the region.”
NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT
“From this Nicaragua, blessed and dignified, we rise the dependable of our people... to request respect for the sovereignty of the radical of Venezuela.”
IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY
The ministry condemned the U.S. onslaught connected Venezuela “as a blatant usurpation of its nationalist sovereignty and territorial integrity.” It called connected the UN Security Council to “act instantly to halt the unlawful aggression” and clasp those liable accountable.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PRIME MINISTER KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR
“Trinidad and Tobago is NOT a subordinate successful immoderate of these ongoing subject operations. Trinidad and Tobago continues to support peaceful relations with the radical of Venezuela.”
BRITAIN’S REFORM UK PARTY LEADER NIGEL FARAGE
“The American actions successful Venezuela overnight are unorthodox and contrary to planetary instrumentality - but if they marque China and Russia deliberation twice, it whitethorn beryllium a bully thing.”
“I anticipation the Venezuelan radical tin present crook a caller leafage without Maduro.”
OFFICE OF ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI
“In enactment with Italy’s long-standing position, the Government believes that outer subject enactment is not the mode to extremity totalitarian regimes, but astatine the aforesaid clip considers antiaircraft involution against hybrid attacks to its security to beryllium legitimate, arsenic successful the lawsuit of authorities entities that substance and beforehand cause trafficking.”
NORWAY FOREIGN MINISTER ESPEN BARTH EIDE
“International instrumentality is cosmopolitan and binding for each states. The American involution successful Venezuela is not successful accordance with planetary law.
“A peaceful modulation to antiauthoritarian regularisation is the lone viable way successful Venezuela. This requires inclusive governmental processes that respect the rights of the population.”
SLOVAKIA PRIME MINISTER ROBERT FICO
“The US subject enactment successful Venezuela is further grounds of the breakdown of the satellite bid created aft World War II.”
CZECH REPUBLIC, FOREIGN MINISTER PETR MACINKA
“We present see it important to calm the concern and initiate diplomatic negotiations, including with the information of the Venezuelan opposition.”
MALAYSIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
“As a substance of principle, Malaysia opposes each forms of overseas involution successful the interior affairs of different States, arsenic good arsenic the menace oregon usage of force. These are cardinal principles enshrined successful the Charter of the United Nations and planetary law. Malaysia consistently upholds the value of peaceful solution of disputes done dialogue, respect for sovereignty, and adherence to planetary norms.
“At this captious time, it is important for the acrophobic parties to workout maximum restraint, and question peaceful solutions done dialog and diplomacy.”
JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTRY
“Japan has agelong valued the cardinal principles of state and democracy. We person besides consistently attached value to upholding the principles of planetary instrumentality wrong the planetary community. On the ground of this accordant position, Japan volition proceed to enactment intimately with applicable countries, including the G7 and determination partners, portion doing everything imaginable to support Japanese nationals and pursuing diplomatic efforts toward the restoration of ideology and the stabilisation of the concern successful Venezuela.”
