Overview
- Speaking to reporters, President Donald Trump said a U.S. operation targeting Colombia "sounds good to me" and told President Gustavo Petro to "watch his ass," accusing him of enabling cocaine production.
- Colombia condemned the Venezuela raid as an assault on sovereignty, convened a national security meeting, reinforced the Venezuela border, and activated alerts for possible armed-group attacks.
- An emergency U.N. Security Council meeting was scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. in New York to discuss the U.S. operation, according to diplomatic sources.
- The ELN and dissident FARC factions vowed to confront U.S. "imperial plans," with the ELN cited as controlling trafficking routes along the Colombia–Venezuela border.
- U.S. officials said the Maduro capture was part of "Operation Absolute Resolve" and followed the unsealing of narco-terrorism, cocaine importation conspiracy, and weapons charges alleging ties to the FARC, ELN, and Mexican cartels.