Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­tic­i­pa­tion of re­newed co­op­er­a­tion and stronger re­la­tions with Venezuela in the com­ing years.

The Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has con­firmed that all Trinidad and To­ba­go per­son­nel sta­tioned at the coun­try’s em­bassy in Cara­cas are safe and ful­ly ac­count­ed for.

Af­ter months of grow­ing mil­i­tary pres­sure on Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump or­dered a brazen op­er­a­tion in­to the South Amer­i­can coun­try to cap­ture its leader and whisk him to the Unit­ed States where his ad­min­is­tra­tion planned to put him on tri­al.

US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio says he “an­tic­i­pates no fur­ther ac­tion in Venezuela” with the US mil­i­tary’s re­port­ed cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said the U.S. planned to run Venezuela un­til a tran­si­tion of pow­er can take place.

Venezue­lan Op­po­si­tion Leader Maria Co­ri­na Macha­do has de­clared that “the hour of free­dom has ar­rived,” claim­ing that Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro now faces in­ter­na­tion­al jus­tice for crimes com­mit­ted against Venezue­lans and cit­i­zens of oth­er na­tions.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space re­mains open, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of De­fence, de­spite sev­er­al in­ter­na­tion­al air­lines can­celling flights fol­low­ing re­stric­tions im­posed by Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties.

Rus­sia has de­nied Venezue­lan vice pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez is in its coun­try while call­ing on the Unit­ed States to re­lease pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro and his wife, Cil­ia.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it has im­ple­ment­ed pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures to safe­guard the na­tion fol­low­ing re­cent de­vel­op­ments in the re­gion.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al has ex­pressed deep alarm over the lat­est es­ca­la­tion in Venezuela, warn­ing that the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary ac­tion in the coun­try could have se­ri­ous im­pli­ca­tions for the wider re­gion.

So­cial ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa says that while many Venezue­lans are cel­e­brat­ing the cap­ture of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, there is grow­ing con­cern that oth­er key fig­ures with­in his in­ner cir­cle were not de­tained dur­ing the Unit­ed States op­er­a­tion in Cara­cas on Sat­ur­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump hailed the U.S. op­er­a­tion to cap­ture Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro as an “in­cred­i­ble” achieve­ment dur­ing an ap­pear­ance on Fox and Friends on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.