Future of Venezuela after US raid in Caracas

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Questions are mounting about the future of Venezuela and the role the U.S. plans to play in shaping it.
Questions are mounting about the future of Venezuela and the role of the U.S. that it
plans to play in shaping it.
It comes as former authoritarian President Nicolás Murillo, captured in a U.S. raid,
is being held in a jail cell in New York.
ABC's Cristian Cordero has the latest.
This morning, the high-stakes raid in Caracas is front and center on Capitol Hill.
Lawmakers are divided after a two-hour-long classified briefing by Secretary of State
Marco Rubio on Monday.
Several Democrats say they didn't get enough clarity on Venezuela's future.
Their plan for the U.S. running Venezuela is vague, based on wishful thinking, and unsatisfying.
When the United States engages in this kind of regime change and so-called nation-building,
it always ends up hurting the United States.
While several Republicans are defending the operation and downplaying concerns that the
U.S. is starting a war.
We don't expect troops on the ground.
We don't expect direct involvement in any other way beyond just coercing the interim
government to get that going.
Trump administration officials have not answered questions about whether U.S. troops will be
deployed to Venezuela.
President Trump is, however, adamant the U.S. is running the country, as officials pressure
Venezuela's interim leader, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, to cooperate.
Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela's interim president yesterday, following the Saturday
morning military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, face charges
in the U.S.
The two pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism charges in a New York courtroom Monday.
His lawyer says the case is going to be complicated.
For now, he's going nowhere.
Maduro did not even ask for bail and return to jail.
Trump is now eyeing military action beyond Venezuela, singling out and drawing criticism
from Colombia, Cuba and Mexico.
The president is also repeating his vow to make Greenland part of the U.S., something
Denmark says the U.S. has no right to.
Cristian Cordero, ABC News, Washington.
