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Dale Willman
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is being held at a detention center in Brooklyn less than a day after US Forces captured Maduro and his wife on a military base in Caracas. The military action was quick and its planning was kept a secret even from members of Congress. Now members of both parties are complaining about being kept in the dark. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says Trump's being hypocritical by arresting Maduro while pardoning other convicted leaders.
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Chuck Schumer
How do you explain the bald and glaring contradiction between pardoning Hernandez of Honduras, who was convicted of, I believe, sending 400 kilos of cocaine into the United States?
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Dale Willman
Russia, meanwhile, is also condemning the U.S. actions against Venezuela. As NPR's Charles Maine reports from Moscow, Maduro had been an ally of the Kremlin.
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Charles Maynes
In a statement, Russia's Foreign Ministry called the Trump administration's pretext for attacking Venezuela unfounded and said the U.S. actions marked an unacceptable assault on Venezuela's sovereignty. Despite such expressions of support, Moscow has stopped short of challenging the US More forcefully amid a months long pressure campaign by the Trump administration against the Venezuelan leadership. The Kremlin reportedly rebuffed a request by Nicolas Maduro for direct military assistance in the fall, a result, analysts say, of Moscow's design to maintain good relations with the Trump administration as it tries to broker its own peace deal for Russia's war in Ukraine. Charles Maynes, NPR News, Moscow.
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Dale Willman
Protests denouncing the Trump administration's military intervention in Venezuela and the capture of its president are being held across the country. Texas Public Radio's Joey Palacios from San Antonio filed this report from a protest that called for the US to remove itself from the South American country's politics.
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Joey Palacios
About 80 protesters from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the 50:51 movement, gathered at a busy San Antonio intersection where an ICE raid was held last year. They held signs that said, no blood for oil. Democracy needs your courage and money for health care, not for war and detention. Kerry Rosen, a local organizer with the party, says the goal is to build an anti war movement.
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Kerry Rosen
I mean, this is military city, usa. This city will be directly impacted if there's escalation in Venezuela. And so we need to build a working class movement that is anti war.
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Joey Palacios
Several other protests are planned in Texas on Sunday, including Houston, Austin and Dallas. I'm Joy Palacios in San Antonio.
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Dale Willman
Officials in Switzerland have opened an investigation into the managers of the bar, where a fire at a New Year's eve party left 40 people dead and injured more than 100 others. A prosecutor said Saturday that the two are suspected of involuntary homicide, involuntary bodily harm and involuntarily causing a fire. The fire broke out early Thursday morning at the bar in the ski resort of Krantz, Montana. This is NPR News. Lake effect snow has been dropping on large parts of upstate New York for the better part of a week. But as Bruce Konviser reports from New York City, that snow Armageddon is finally ending.
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Bruce Konviser
The hardest hit areas were downwind from Lake Ontario, where multiple towns were buried under three and four feet of snow. But the hardest hit may have been Camden, a town of about 5,040 miles east of Lake Ontario. It was buried under 65 inches of snow. Among cities with populations above 100,000, Syracuse is considered the snowiest city in America. They got two feet of snow in a single day, making it the city's heaviest one day accumulation in nearly 80 years. Farther west, some towns south of Lake Erie were also buried under three feet of snow this week. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in New York.
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Dale Willman
National security advisers from Europe and elsewhere were in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss security guarantees. The talks came as the push to end the war in Ukraine grows. European leaders will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday for further talks. Zelenskyy says he hopes that documents on security guarantees for his country could be completed by the time of this week's meeting. Iran's state television says Russia has sent three Iranian communications satellites into orbit. They were launched from eastern Russia on Sunday morning. The US Says Iran's satellite program defies a UN Security Council resolution, and it also calls on Tehran to stop all activities involving ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear weapons. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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