India, Jan. 4 -- The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he is "deeply alarmed" over the standoff between the United States and Venezuela in recent months, which culminated on Saturday morning in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro by US special forces.

US President Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, and the US Attorney General said Maduro and his wife would face "the full wrath of American justice on American soil, in American courts," based on a 2020 narcoterrorism indictment during the first Trump administration, in New York.

The Venezuelan Government denounced the act of "extremely serious military aggression" by the US, which followed months of increasing tension including a major military build up o...