Allies and adversaries of the United States have used an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to voice opposition to the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro.

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on Monday defended the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as a “law enforcement operation” aimed at apprehending a drug trafficker

The United States has been accused of committing a “crime of aggression” after its dramatic seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sparked a furious backlash at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

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Venezuela Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta speaks as he holds up a news article, during a UN Security Council meeting on U.S. strikes and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,