Maduro was captured from location ‘more like a fortress than a house’ – Trump

The US President Donald Trump has said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured from a location that was more of a fortress than a house.

“We were going to do this four days ago but the weather was not perfect,” Trump tells Fox News.

“The weather has to be perfect… all of a sudden it opened up and we said go,” he says.

He adds that, when they captured Maduro, he was “in a house that was more like a fortress than a house” with “solid steel all around”.

Trump says that the US is going to be “strongly involved” in Venezuela’s oil industry moving forward.

He adds that he spoke to Maduro “a week ago” and that he told him “you have to give up, you have to surrender”.

“We had to do something much more surgical, much more powerful”, Trump says. (BBC)