Venezuela SC names Delcy Rodriguez acting president

Venezuela's Supreme Court has directed Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to assume the role of acting president following the removal of President Nicolas Maduro by the United States, a move that has sharply intensified the country's ongoing political crisis. The ruling, announced late Saturday local time, concluded that Maduro is in a "material and temporary impossibility to exercise his functions," CNN reported. The decision was delivered during a televised court session, formally triggering constitutional provisions related to presidential absence.Reading the order, Supreme Court Justice Tania D'Amelio said Rodriguez would "assume and exercise, as acting president, all the powers, duties, and faculties inherent to the office of president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the nation."

Celebrations were seen across South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the US military operation to capture Nicolas Maduro and remove him from Venezuela. For some Venezuelan natives, the military action brought their dreams of reuniting with loved ones closer to reality after years of heart-wrenching separations.Outside El Arepazo restaurant, a hub of the Venezuelan culture of Doral, one man held a piece of cardboard with “Libertad” scrawled with a black marker. Chants of "Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!" were heard across the region, The Associated Press reported."We’re like everybody — it’s a combination of feelings, of course," said Alejandra Arrieta, who came to the US in 1997. "There’s fears. There’s excitement. There’s so many years that we’ve been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the freedom," Arrieta added.