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Washington
Close to 200 U.S. subject unit entered the Venezuelan superior Caracas arsenic portion of the cognition to prehend leftist person Nicolas Maduro, Pentagon main Pete Hegseth said connected Monday (January 5, 2026).
U.S. forces captured Mr. Maduro and his woman implicit the weekend, bringing to an extremity 12 years of progressively authoritarian regularisation by the left-wing leader, whom Washington accused of moving a cause cartel and targeted with a $50 cardinal bounty.
"Nearly 200 of our top Americans went downtown successful Caracas... and grabbed an indicted idiosyncratic wanted by American justice, successful enactment of instrumentality enforcement, without a azygous American killed," Mr. Hegseth said successful a code to U.S. sailors and shipbuilders successful Virginia.
It was the archetypal clip that a U.S. authoritative had provided a fig for American forces who swooped into Caracas via chopper arsenic portion of the stunning operation, which besides progressive much than 150 subject craft successful assorted roles, including striking Venezuelan defenses.
Mr. Maduro, a self-described socialist, led Venezuela with an robust fist and maintained powerfulness done a bid of elections that were wide considered to person been rigged. He and his woman Cilia Flores some entered pleas of not blameworthy successful a New York tribunal connected Monday (January 5).
