Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, along with his wife, has been captured and flown out of the country, US president Donald Trump announced on social media at 4:21 am on Saturday. Ten minutes later, Tyler Pager, a White House reporter for the New York Times, called Trump. After three rings, the president picked up, and the two were talking, the NYT reported.
Tyler Page, who was staying at Residence Inn by Marriott West Palm Beach Downtown in Florida, said he woke up shortly after 1 am on Saturday morning after his colleague Anatoly Kurmanaev, who is in Venezuela, messaged a group of reporters and editors that Caracas had been bombed.
At least seven blasts were heard in an attack that lasted less than 30 minutes. The targets appeared to include military infrastructure. Smoke was seen rising from the hangar of a military base in Caracas and another military installation in the capital was without power. Maduro and Flores were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation outside Caracas when they were captured.
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