The kidnapping of the president and his wife violates the UN Charter and international law, Tarek William Saab has told RT The US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro amounts to an act of war, the South American country’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab has told RT. American forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and several other regions of the country on January 3, while US commandos abducted Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.