Fox News correspondent Madeleine Rivera reports on the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, saying they are en route to New York for drug and weapons charges on ‘Fox Report.’

President Donald Trump has taken a bold step in his campaign to yank Venezuela back from the brink and to keep China out of the Western Hemisphere. 

Operation Absolute Resolve was a stunning tactical success by U.S. military forces. Now comes the hard part of remodeling Venezuela without creating a quagmire. 

Nabbing illegitimate President Nicolás Maduro was another masterpiece orchestrated by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan "Razin" Caine. Like Operation Midnight Hammer’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June, this operation involved over 150 aircraft and built on America’s complete air dominance. Caine credited the "years of experience hunting for terrorists."  

Intelligence agencies mapped every moment of Maduro’s routine down to his pets.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and MDC Brooklyn. (Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images; Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We watched, we waited, we prepared," Caine explained Saturday. U.S. ships and aircraft were poised on a trigger alert for days. Then, the weather broke, with coastal fog lifting just enough for "the most skilled aviators in the world" to fly in to get Maduro as joint forces laid down a corridor of layered effects.

U.S. forces achieved total surprise. Down went Venezuela’s Russian-supplied air defenses, as the U.S. Space Force........

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