00:00Explosions shook Caracas on Friday night in a 30 minute long lightning offensive of 150 aircraft also targeting the country's key air bases.
00:10The bombings heralded a seismic political shock for Venezuela.
00:13As in the hours that followed, U.S. special operators would abduct President Maduro and his wife at their home.
00:19A photo posted to Donald Trump social media claims to show Nicolas Maduro handcuffed in U.S. custody.
00:26In the wake of Maduro's capture, the vice president, also the next in line to govern, spoke to a national television network from an undisclosed location.
00:35We demand respect for international law.
00:40We condemn this brutal way, savage aggression against our country that has taken the lives of military officials who will now become martyrs of our country and that have taken the lives of innocent Venezuelan civilians.
00:56In the early hours of Saturday, police and military stood by the interior minister in the streets of Caracas as he called for calm.
01:04From this beautiful place, I asked people to stay calm. Trust in our leadership, trust in our military and political leaders during the situation that we're facing.
01:17But as morning broke, it was unclear exactly who those political leaders were.
01:24Opposition figure and recent Nobel laureate Maria Machado hailed the events of Friday night in a communique, saying the hour of freedom had arrived.
01:33This is the hour of the citizens, of those of us who risked everything for democracy on the 28th of July and who elected Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as legitimate president of Venezuela, who must immediately assume his constitutional mandate and be recognized as commander in chief of the National Armed Forces.
01:51Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have rightfully won the 2024 presidential poll, has been in exile since September of that same year. His return to Venezuela would be dangerous without support from the armed forces.
02:04Amid a haze of uncertainty, some Caracas residents queued to buy groceries, anticipating further instability, while others packed their bags and left. This is the president was taken to New York, where he and his wife face a laundry list of criminal charges, including narco terrorism conspiracy.
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