A supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro with paintings depicting Venezuela’s Liberator Simòn Bolivar, takes part in a gathering in the streets of Caracas on January 3, 2026, after US forces captured Maduro. President Donald Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro after bombing the capital Caracas and other cities in a dramatic climax to a months-long standoff between Trump and his Venezuelan arch-foe. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP)
January 4, 2026
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Five Latin American countries and Spain warned on Sunday against any outside bid for “control” of Venezuela, after US President Donald Trump suggested Washington would “run” the country and access its oil.
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain in a joint statement, expressed their “rejection” of US forces’ ousting of Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela’s president and “concern about any attempt at governmental control or administration or outside appropriation of natural or strategic resources.”