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The attackers also abducted an unspecified number of people, including students from a Catholic school where over 300 people were kidnapped in November.

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez struck a more diplomatic tone than she had on Saturday, inviting the United States to “work together on a cooperative agenda.”

President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the casualties were from Cuba’s armed forces or interior ministry. The country is a longstanding ally of Venezuela.

One thing is clear after the U.S. raid: Gunboat diplomacy is back, with cascading implications not just for the Americas but for the world.

Some Republicans are asking how Mr. Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela squares with his past pledges to avoid foreign entanglements and nation building.

The videos, filmed on cellphones by people mainly in Caracas and La Guaira, showed the exact moments in which the U.S. air and ground incursion played out in real time.

Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, and his wife, Cilia Flores, will make their first appearance on Monday in a New York City courthouse, the site of other high-profile proceedings.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a military quarantine of Venezuela and its oil industry would remain in place. The death toll from the raid to seize Nicolás Maduro rose to 80.

Nicolás Maduro was unpopular. But his abrupt removal has created deep uncertainty, alarming even those who opposed him.

President Trump opened a new chapter in American nation building by toppling Venezuela’s leader and promising U.S. intervention in running its affairs.

The Metropolitan Detention Center, known as the M.D.C., is one of the United States’ most notorious federal lockups.

“I had utterly lost hope,” said one Venezuelan who has lived in exile from his country for seven years.

Before-and-after imagery released on Sunday shows that at least five buildings at the complex were destroyed by U.S. forces.

Officials said that leaders were in survival mode amid anti-government protests and the prospect of again coming into the cross hairs of Israel and the United States.

David E. Sanger, our national security correspondent, describes the implications of President Trump’s launching of the attack that captured the Venezuelan president, and Trump’s declaration that the United States would “run the country.”

The Trump administration has for months increased pressure on the Maduro government through a series of diplomatic and military maneuvers.

The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not.