The fallout from the US capture and extradition of Nicolás Maduro is radiating around the world.

In a speech at Venezuela’s legislative palace, Maduro’s son,Venezuelan congressman Nicolás Maduro Guerra, condemned the capture.

“If we normalize the kidnapping of a head of state, no country is safe,” Maduro Guerra said. “Today, it’s Venezuela. Tomorrow, it could be any nation that refuses to submit.”

At the request of Colombia, the UN Security Council met to discuss whether President Donald Trump’s actions were legal.

Colombia’s leader was also threatened by Trump: “Colombia is very sick too,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. “Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he’s not going to be doing it very long, let me tell you.”

In the time since Maduro’s capture early Saturday morning, Trump has also threatened Cuba, Greenland, Iran, and Mexico.

Greg Grandin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Yale University and the author of the 2025 book America, America, told Today, Explained host Noel King this fits into a long pattern of US behavior.

“There is no country in which the United States hasn’t intervened in South America, in Central America,” Grandin told King. “By some counts between 1898 and 1992, the United States successfully was involved in over 40 regime changes.”

Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and

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