CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in a stunning military operation early Saturday that plucked a sitting leader from office. President Donald Trump insisted the U.S. government would run the country at least temporarily and was already doing so.

The action marked the culmination of an escalating Trump administration pressure campaign on the oil-rich South American nation as well as weeks of planning aimed that tracked Maduro’s behavioral habits, including what he ate and where he slept.

Maduro and ...