00:00Moto taxi driver Jonathan Mayora surveys the ruins of his home near the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
00:08The U.S. hit the area as part of an operation to capture President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.
00:14The target was a naval academy nearby.
00:17But the attack killed civilians and wrecked homes, too.
00:20People here wonder, why them?
00:23Now I'm hoping for a quick response from the government to help my family, my children,
00:28because they very nearly killed my kids here, you know.
00:30My kids were almost killed.
00:32Up there, there were families, too.
00:34Two elderly women died because of these acts that never should have happened.
00:37Because we aren't to blame for what happens in the world.
00:40They have their problems and we have ours.
00:42Now look at all this chaos.
00:44I don't agree with this, gentlemen.
00:46But while those impacted by the strikes face the most uncertainty,
00:50the whole country is unsure what comes next.
00:53Maduro will soon appear in this New York courthouse to face charges including narco-trafficking.
01:00His nearly 13 years in office, marred by accusations of election fraud, look to be finished.
01:06But he's just one part of a populist left-wing political movement that's run Venezuela since 1999
01:13and put the country at odds with the U.S.
01:16Will his removal be enough to bring a change of course?
01:19Washington expects it will.
01:22U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken of running Venezuela
01:25and restoring the country's oil infrastructure.
01:28And Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that while it's too early to expect elections,
01:33the U.S. is using a military quarantine of oil exports to push for yielding to America's expectations.
01:39That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country
01:45make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela,
01:48but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about.
01:52But Venezuelans themselves are deeply split about what should come next.
02:00On the one hand are the exiles.
02:03Around a fifth of Venezuela's population has left the country during Maduro's time in power,
02:07pushed by economic and human rights woes.
02:10Amid celebrations, some say they back a transition to a new government under the watch of the Trump administration.
02:17This is what has to happen. Why? Because government entities are still not clean.
02:24The defense minister still hasn't left, still hasn't handed over power.
02:29So we can't let our political leaders take over the government until they leave.
02:33It will be a risk to leave them and put our leaders in.
02:38But in Venezuela itself, Maduro's deputies are still in charge.
02:43And a protest demanding his release shows his government still has support.
02:48We don't want them to impose a Yankee government on us.
02:52We are free and sovereign.
02:54We are a people with guarantees in the Bolivarian Constitution.
02:58We are a free people, free and sovereign.
03:01Donald Trump is not going to take our oil.
03:03Rubio is not going to govern us.
03:05We have a president and a vice president who will assume for now.
03:09But our president is Nicolas Maduro.
03:12Trump says the focus now is on, quote, fixing up Venezuela, with elections to follow at some later date.
03:18He told reporters on Air Force One that the U.S. is in charge of Venezuela.
03:23And in this exchange had this warning for the country's interim leadership.
03:27I guess I don't know those U.S. troops.
03:29I mean, one thing that Americans and a lot of people are wondering.
03:32You just sounded like you weighed out another strike, another land strike at least in Venezuela.
03:36You sound like you weighed that out.
03:38We didn't need it.
03:40We were prepared to do a second strike if we needed it.
03:43We're totally prepared.
03:44But that's off the table.
03:45We're still prepared.
03:46That's off the table now.
03:47If they don't behave, we will do a second strike.
03:50With Venezuelans divided and the U.S. saying it will call the shots from here on out,
03:55a contest for Venezuela's future is underway.
03:58Justin Wu and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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