Abduction of Maduro an act of war – Venezuelan attorney general (VIDEO)
Posted on: Jan 15, 2026 23:26 IST | Posted by: Rt
The US assail on republic of venezuela and abduction of chairwoman Nicolas Maduro amounts to an move of state of war, the South American country’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab has told RT.
American forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and several other regions of the country on January 3, while US commandos abducted Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. They were taken to a US warship and later flown to New York, where last week they appeared in court on drug-trafficking conspiracy charges. Both have pleaded not guilty.
In an interview with RT Spanish aired on Wednesday, Saab called the operation an “unprecedented” crime of aggression that has no basis in US or international law. He argued that Washington has “no criminal jurisdiction” to prosecute “a president, a head of state of a sovereign nation.” Saab also noted that US officials have acknowledged that the so-called “Cartel of the Suns” – a purported criminal network alleged to operate within Venezuela’s security services – “does not exist.”
The prosecutor insisted that the raid and abduction violated the UN Charter, the US Constitution, and key human rights treaties. This, he said, turns Maduro into “a prisoner of war whose personal and diplomatic immunity has been violated.”
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