Spies, airstrikes and blowtorches… How US forces tracked and captured Venezuela’s Nicolas Madu
With a ‘good luck and a godspeed’ from Donald Trump, the US forces launched one of the country’s most complex operations in the dead of night to snatch the leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, from his compound in Caracas. Here’s how it all unfolded
An image of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, posted by US President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account is displayed during a press conference on the US strikes in Venezuela, in Doral, Miami-Dade County, Florida. Reuters
“I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show. And if you would have seen the speed, the violence… It was an amazing thing, an amazing job that these people did. Nobody else could have done anything like it.”
This is how US President Donald Trump described ‘Operation Absolute Resolve’, the military operation to seize Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, who has now arrived in New York and will stand trial on drug and weapon charges
