Security Council blasts U.S. for seizing Maduro

During an emergency meeting, members of UN. body condemn action in Venezuela.

- By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND JENNIFER PELTZ

SAMUEL MONCADA, Venezuela's U.N. envoy, speaks at Monday's meeting.

(FRANK FRANKLIN II Associated Press)

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Monday after an audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela over the weekend to capture leader Nicoldés Maduro, with the United Nations’ top official warning that America may have violated international law.

Before the U.N.’s most powerful body, both allies and adversaries blasted President Trump’s intervention and him signaling the possibility of expanding military action to countries such as Colombia and Mexico over drug trafficking accusations. He also reupped his threat to take over the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of U.S. security interests.

In a statement, U.N. Secretary-General Anténio Guterres said he is “deeply concerned that rules of international law have not been respected with regard to the 3 January military action.”