US captures Venezuela’s leader and his wife in a stunning operation and plans to prosecute them

By REGINA GARCIA CANO, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and ERIC TUCKER

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in a stunning military operation early Saturday that plucked a sitting leader from office — the culmination of months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the oil-rich South American nation.

Maduro and his wife, taken overnight from their home on a military base, were aboard a U.S. warship on their way to New York...