On Saturday, President Donald Trump ordered an unprecedented military incursion in Venezuela, directing a volley of air strikes at the country as U.S. commandos captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and extracted them to the United States to stand trial on alleged narco-terrorism charges. Maduro and his wife made their first appearance in federal court in lower Manhattan Monday after noon, with the couple pleading not guilty to the charges against them. Below, is a look at how the day unfolded.

Senate Minority Chuck Schumer spoke from the Senate floor Monday, calling Maduro a “tyrant” and adding that “nobody mourns what has happened to him.” However, the Democratic leader raised concerns about President Trump’s next plans, saying that the administration has not been forthcoming about its intentions for the region.

“Now the crucial question is what comes next for Venezuela and, more importantly, for the United States. Nobody really seems to know. The administration’s story keeps changing by the hour. Even after Secretary Rubio spent all day Sunday trying to clean up Trump’s mess, the president went right back to repeat that the U.S. will now, apparently, run Venezuela ‘for a while,’” he said. “On and on and on. No plan, no clarity, only chaos.”

.@SenSchumer on Venezuela: "Maduro is a tyrant. Nobody mourns what has happened to him...Now the crucial question is what comes next for Venezuela and, more importantly, for the United States. Nobody really seems to know. The administration's story keeps changing by the hour." pic.twitter.com/SjwNRSgwxr

In a speech in Newport News, Virginia on Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth revealed that nearly 200 U.S. troops took part in the operation to capture Maduro over the weekend.

“We saw three nights ago, in downtown Caracas in Venezuela, as nearly 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas…and grabbed an indicted individual wanted by American justice in support of law enforcement,” he said, per the Wall Street Journal.

Reuters reports that Switzerland has frozen assets linked to Maduro and others associated with him:

A spokesperson for the Swiss Foreign Ministry said the order affects 37 people. The spokesperson said the ministry could not provide any details on the value of the assets in question.

The measure, effective immediately and valid for four years, aims to prevent an outflow of potentially illicit assets and comes in addition to existing sanctions imposed on Venezuela since 2018, the government said in a statement.

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Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores make their first appearance in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday on federal drug and weapons charges. Both pleaded not guilty to all charges. pic.twitter.com/e4Ezg8EFmu

Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s U.N. representative, condemned the U.S.’s capture of Maduro as a “kidnapping” and said the act “represented a flagrant violation of the U.N. charter.”

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