Venezuela's deposed leader Nicolas Maduro was due in a New York court on Monday to face drug charges while the U.N. was to scrutinize the legality of U.S. President Donald Trump's extraordinary operation to capture him. In the biggest U.S. intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama, Special Forces swooped into Caracas on helicopters at the weekend to smash through Maduro's security cordon and nab him at the door of a safe room. Maduro loyalists, including his vice-president Delcy Rodriguez, remain in charge of Venezuela, first spitting defiance then pivoting to possible cooperation. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Washington DC, Fraser Jackson.
