(UPDATE) PALM BEACH, United States — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in a New York jail Saturday (Sunday in Manila), hours after American special forces seized and flew him out of his country — which Donald Trump said would come under effective US control. The US president’s announcement followed a lightning pre-dawn attack in which commandos grabbed Maduro and his wife while air strikes pounded sites in and around Caracas. A US government plane carrying Maduro landed at a military base shortly after nightfall, and he was transported by helicopter to New York City, where the couple were to be…
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