Venezuela

César Báez | 1.3.2026 1:30 PM

The U.S. military captured the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during an operation carried out early this morning in the capital city of Caracas. At 1 a.m., residents of the city reported hearing explosions and aircraft. According to CNN, Maduro and his wife were sleeping in their bedroom when the Americans arrived to seize them.

At a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said that the U.S. would "run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition," adding in the question and answer session that "we're not afraid of boots on the ground" and that the focus would be on oil.

"We don't want to be involved with having someone else get in," Trumps said, "and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period." Trump said a much bigger attack was also planned. "We actually assumed a second wave would be necessary, but now it's probably not." 

"This was pinpoint, but we have a much bigger wave that we probably won't have to do," Trump said. He added that U.S. oil companies........

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