Maduro in custody at New York detention centre as Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela

President Nicolás Maduro is in custody at a New York detention centre after he was captured during US strikes on Venezuela on Saturday.

Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, were taken from the capital Caracas to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to face drug trafficking-related charges.

He has previouslydenied being the leader of a drug cartel.

Venezuela has announced a state of national emergency and denounces the "military aggression" - here's how the US operation unfolded.

President Donald Trump says the US is going to "run" Venezuela "until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition".

US oil companies would also fix Venezuela's "broken infrastructure" and "start making money for the country", Trump says.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday outlined the charges brought against the Venezuelan President and his wife Cilia Flores.

Nicolás Maduro has been charged with "Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States".

Later, US President Donald Trump summed these charges up as Maduro's "campaign of deadly narco-terrorism" against the US and its citizens.

Maduro has previously denied being the leader of a drug cartel.

He also called Maduro an "illegitimate dictator", adding that he had asked the Venezuelan leader to "surrender" a week before the strikes.

Bondi says that Maduro and his wife will "face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts".

The pair are now in custody at a New York detention centre where they will appear in court as soon as Monday.

Trump said on Saturday the US was going "to run the country until such time as we can do a safe and proper and judicious transition".

It is unclear exactly how the US plans to run Venezuela or who will be involved, but Trump said it would be a "group" effort.

He added that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had been talking to Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's vice-president, who has since been named interim president by Venezuela's Supreme Court.

Trump said she had expressed her willingness to do "whatever the US asks".

Rodríguez later appeared on state television to demand Maduro's release, saying he was the "only president".

Trump also said he had not spoken to Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado, who he characterised as having neither the support nor the respect within Venezuela to become its leader.

Machado had earlier called for Edmundo González to assume power. She had rallied support for González in the 2024 presidential election and vote tallies released by her party suggest he won by a landslide.