Venezuela’s Supreme Court has appointed the Vice President under Nicolas Maduro as the interim President.
The move by the Supreme Court comes less than 24 hours after U.S. Special Forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Reuters broke the story and provided the following details:
The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court ordered on Saturday that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assume the role of acting president of the country in the absence of Nicolás Maduro, who was detained early Saturday morning in an operation by U.S. forces.
The court ruling said that Rodríguez would assume “the office of President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the Nation.”
The Associated Press reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already been in contact with the now President of Venezuela:
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