U.S. attack that removed President Nicolás Maduro from power on Saturday, Venezuela's interior minister Diosdado Cabello said.

Nicolás Maduro has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges in a New York court on Monday, after being captured in Caracas in an extraordinary US raid. Maduro entered the plea in the Manhattan courthouse after he and his wife were charged with narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and firearms offences.

Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife appeared in a federal court in New York City on Monday, following their capture by U.S. forces over the weekend in a military operation in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.

When the United States conducted an overnight military strike on Venezuela on Saturday morning, Jan. 3, not only was the nation's leader, Nicolás Maduro, captured, but so was his wife, Cilia Flores.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been captured and flown out of Venezuela after the US carried out a large scale strike, US President Donald Trump announced. Follow for live updates.

President Donald Trump on Jan. 6 praised the U.S. raid in Venezuela that captured President Nicolás Maduro and said soldiers “on the other side” were killed.

The U.S. Senate advanced a resolution on Thursday that would bar President Donald Trump from further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization, a rare rebuke of the Republican leader.

But Maduro loyalists in the high court Saturday, citing another provision of the constitution, declared Maduro's absence “temporary” meaning there is no election requirement.