Washington.- The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet extraordinarily next Tuesday, January 6, to analyze the situation in Venezuela following the capture by the United States of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the international organization reported this Sunday.
The session was convened at the request of the
Permanent Mission of Colombia, whose Government rejected today, along with Spain, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, what they call “military actions unilaterally executed in Venezuelan territory”.
In addition to the interventions of representatives of the member states, it is also expected that the secretary general of the bloc, Surinamese Albert Ramdin, will speak at the end of the meeting.
Maduro was arrested in the early hours of this Saturday in Caracas along with his wife, Cilia Flores, during a Washington lightning operation dubbed ‘Absolute Resolution’, to then be transferred to New York, where he faces charges of drug trafficking and corruption.
Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the capture of the president of Venezuela and announced that his country would govern the South American nation until there is a transition, the OAS urged Washington and Caracas to “prevent further escalation” and support a peaceful solution to the situation.
In a statement, the international body also called for a path forward in Venezuela that “sustains governance based on the will of its people.”
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Maduro and his wife have been staying since Saturday night at the
Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, and both will appear tomorrow, Monday, before a New York federal court, in what will be their first hearing in the U.S. after their capture and subsequent transfer to the North American country.
The Vice President and now acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, has denounced the operation as an “illegal kidnapping”, while Trump warned her this Sunday that if the new Venezuelan leader “doesn’t do what is right, she’s going to pay a very high price, probably higher than Maduro’s.”
