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US President Donald Trump says the US will run Venezuela and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations following a military strike on the capital city of Caracas, which led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.

He made this disclosure at a news conference in Florida, hours after US forces executed a surgical strike in Caracas to extract Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from a heavily fortified compound around 2 am.

No US troops were killed in the mission, Trump said. One helicopter was damaged by gunfire but managed to fly out safely.