Venezue­lan Op­po­si­tion Leader Maria Co­ri­na Macha­do has de­clared that “the hour of free­dom has ar­rived,” claim­ing that Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro now faces in­ter­na­tion­al jus­tice for crimes com­mit­ted against Venezue­lans and cit­i­zens of oth­er na­tions.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s air­space re­mains open, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of De­fence, de­spite sev­er­al in­ter­na­tion­al air­lines can­celling flights fol­low­ing re­stric­tions im­posed by Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties.

Rus­sia has de­nied Venezue­lan vice pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez is in its coun­try while call­ing on the Unit­ed States to re­lease pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro and his wife, Cil­ia.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it has im­ple­ment­ed pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sures to safe­guard the na­tion fol­low­ing re­cent de­vel­op­ments in the re­gion.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al has ex­pressed deep alarm over the lat­est es­ca­la­tion in Venezuela, warn­ing that the Unit­ed States’ mil­i­tary ac­tion in the coun­try could have se­ri­ous im­pli­ca­tions for the wider re­gion.

So­cial ac­tivist Sofia Figueroa says that while many Venezue­lans are cel­e­brat­ing the cap­ture of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, there is grow­ing con­cern that oth­er key fig­ures with­in his in­ner cir­cle were not de­tained dur­ing the Unit­ed States op­er­a­tion in Cara­cas on Sat­ur­day.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump hailed the U.S. op­er­a­tion to cap­ture Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro as an “in­cred­i­ble” achieve­ment dur­ing an ap­pear­ance on Fox and Friends on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

World lead­ers are re­act­ing with alarm, sup­port and calls for re­straint af­ter US strikes in Venezuela and re­ports of Pres­i­dent Maduro’s cap­ture.

Venezue­lan vice pres­i­dent, Del­cy Ro­driguez has fled to Rus­sia. This is ac­cord­ing to Reuters News Agency, who cit­ed four sources fa­mil­iar with the mat­ter.

Thir­ty min­utes in­to its jour­ney, Jet­Blue Flight 2017, bound for Port of Spain, was forced to turn around and re­turn to New York’s John F. Kennedy Air­port af­ter the U.S. Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FAA) tem­porar­i­ly banned U.S. car­ri­ers from fly­ing in cer­tain parts of the re­gion.

Brazil joins Venezuela’s con­dem­na­tion of the re­port­ed US mil­i­tary strike and al­leged cap­ture of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, call­ing it a vi­o­la­tion of sov­er­eign­ty and a dan­ger­ous prece­dent for re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty.

Port of Spain, Sat­ur­day 3 Jan­u­ary 2026, Caribbean Air­lines ad­vis­es that there are no dis­rup­tions to its ser­vices to­day, Sat­ur­day 3 Jan­u­ary 2026, fol­low­ing re­ports of mil­i­tary strikes by the Unit­ed States against Venezuela, and op­er­a­tions are con­tin­u­ing as sched­uled.