Donald Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela and 'fix oil infrastructure'

The US launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday in which Maduro and his wife were captured by US forces.

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

The US launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday morning in which Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, were captured by US forces and removed from the country.

Venezuela announced a state of national emergency and denounced the "military aggression", with the country's vice president saying Maduro is its only leader.

Maduro and Flores were flown out of the capital, Caracas, on a US helicopter in the early hours of Saturday morning and taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima at an unknown location in the Caribbean Sea.