🚨 ASÍ FUE EL OPERATIVO DE EE. UU. EN VENEZUELA | NUEVOS DETALLES TRAS LA CAPTURA DE NICOLÁS MADURO

And we return to talk about the military operation that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro. And it is that, although much of the planning remains secret, details of what happened that morning are still known, and drops are also coming to light, the effects. These are the effects of the bombing of the United States in Venezuela and that preceded the capture of Nicolás Maduro. This satellite image shows the points hit by the Tyuna Fortress, Venezuela's most important military base, where the destruction, according to the records, was considerable.

These other damages correspond to what would be the La Carlota military base, another of the points attacked in Caracas, but images broadcast by the state channel of China CCTV reveal the damage in a residential building in Catia la Mar, the coastal area attacked by the United States. According to the Chinese channel, one person would have died there and another would have been injured. Damage from the private airport in Charallave is also evidenced.

With these attacks, Operation Absolute Resolution began, which aimed to capture Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. in Charallave. The military offensive that was carried out this Saturday, January 3, began in August 2025, when a team of CIA agents settled in the Venezuelan capital and began to closely monitor every movement of Maduro. The follow-ups included drones that flew over him without being detected and that allowed to know what the head of the regime was eating. The military rehearsed the step by step of the operation. With the information collected, the Joint Command for Special Operations

developed a real-scale model of the fort in which Maduro lived in Kentucky. There, the military practiced the entrance through steel doors and the capture and extraction of the Venezuelan politician. Maduro constantly moved between six and eight different places. However, they did not lose track of him. Everything was ready.

Trump had authorized the operation on December 25. They wanted to take advantage of the festivities because an important number of Venezuelan military personnel were allowed, but the bad weather delayed the plans. The mission could have been delayed until mid-January due to bad weather, according to official sources. However, with the beginning of the year, the weather improved, and at 4.30 pm on Friday, January 2, the ground movements began.

At 10.46 pm, Trump took his phone and gave the final order. It all started with a cyber-maneuver that cut off the supply of electricity in strategic parts of Caracas, preventing more than 150 military aircraft, including drones, fighters and bombers, which took off from 20 military bases, from being discovered in the middle of the night. At one in the morning in Caracas, in the middle of the darkness and silence, the bombs began to detonate anti-aircraft radar and defense batteries in several military facilities in the city.

At 2 and 1 minute, the helicopters approached the Maduro Fort and were attacked. One of the helicopters was hit and, according to US officials, five soldiers were injured. While all this was happening, Trump observed in real time the development of the operation. He was in a room in his mansion in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, accompanied by his senior national security officials, as if it were a television program, in his own words.

Once on the ground, the Delta Force, part of which came from Africa, moved quickly through the building to find Maduro. Five minutes after entering Maduro's house, the military surprised him with his wife, Cilia Flores. They tried to hide behind an iron door that they failed to close before being captured. One in the afternoon, 22 minutes.

The criminal record of Nicolás Maduro, according to the indictment of the United States, dates back to 1999. This year, he and other Venezuelan leaders began to corrupt institutions with the trafficking of tons of cocaine and associating themselves with criminal groups such as the FARC or the ELN. El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El Norte, El N 2008, as chancellor, the accusation says that Maduro sold passports to drug traff powerful narco and the director of the National Drug Office, and received monthly payments to guarantee the passage of flights loaded with cocaine. In 2013, this indictment says that Maduro, as president, changed plans in the face of drug trafficking routes, avoiding the use of the Maiketía airport and opening other routes. In 2014 and between 2015, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro,

known as Nicolacito, appears. This man you see here, according to the United States, he was carrying cocaine to Margarita Island in Petrolera PDVSA planes. By October and November 2015, the United States says that two nephews of Maduro and Cilia Flores of the between 2018 and 2019. This accusation says that Maduro delegated to Ramon Rodríguez the task of providing protection and support to the FARC and ELN,

even facilitating meetings in the presidential palace of Miraflores. In 2020, there is already talk of a meeting in Medellín of Maduro's son with members of the dissidents of the FARC to coordinate the shipment of drugs and weapons to the United States. Crimes that remain today. And finally, between 2022 and 2024, it is said that other members of Chavismo, like Diosdado Cabello,

would have opened clandestine tracks controlled by the ELN to ensure drug and weapons trafficking. Crimes that today are maintained, according to the United States, Margarita. Catalina, precisely, for several years now, the Venezuelan regime has clandestine clues for drug trafficking, which are operated by different cartels and the guerrillas of the different dissidents of the FARC and the ELN.

In May 2023, Noticias Caracol revealed the first evidence, based on secret documents of the Venezuelan Armed Forces Intelligence, that confirmed the links between the regime and these mafias.

These two documents, classified as secrets by the Venezuelan military forces, contain the detailed location of at least 30 clandestine tracks operated by Colombian guerrilla groups that delinquent in the neighboring country.

And today we have the pan for the mango.

Although that presence is not something new, it is the first time that official documents of the Venezuelan government are known where the coordinates of these tracks are recorded in be registered in two of the limitrophes states, Zulia, which borders Guajira and Norte de Santander, and Amazonas, which borders Bichada and Guainía. In this part, the Venezuelan intelligence describes what the guerrilla groups are doing.

They are dedicated to illegal drug trafficking at the national and international level, operating directly from our Venezuelan border,

conditioning unauthorized aircraft tracks in the territory of the Amazon State.

The Venezuelan government knows about these activities, but remains silent. The first of the classified documents refers to the Amazon State. In it, a Brigadier general of the Bolivarian National Guard informs his superior about the location of 14 clandestine tracks used by the ELN and the FARC dissidents. The document identifies that in the northern region of the state of Amazonas

operates the ELN led by alias Vallenato. Next to the camp are three illegal tracks controlled by alias Vallenato. Next to the camp, they locate three illegal tracks controlled by that guerrilla group. In the same region, there are also two groups of FARC dissidents, one commanded by alias Gerson and another in which they do not identify the commander.

For at least two years, it is publicly known that in this area there is presence of two dissident groups in this area, as revealed by this video in the power of Noticias Caracol.

...presence in this sector, in this dear Venezuelan land...

This man is part of the second marketalia led by Iván Márquez. Also, the self-proclaimedcalled Central State of FARC is present under the command of Ivan Mordisco. Near each camp, the Venezuelan military forces and intelligence confirm the location of the tracks

used for drug and gold trafficking. In fact, in these satellite images of the area you can see the guerrilla tracks located in the middle of a jungle hit by deforestation that leaves mining illegal. Even the tracks of the Colombian guerrilla have reached one of the environmental jewels in Venezuela, the Yapacana National Park. According to Venezuelan intelligence, the guerrillas expel the peasants from their lands to put them in the heads of

testaferros and install the tracks. The second secret document is from the Bolivarian Armed Forces, which operates in the state Zulia. The report recognizes that in the area there are 17 clandestine tracks used by dissidents of the FARC and the NL. According to the document, the tracks have a purpose. FARC y el LN. Según el documento, las pistas tienen un propósito.

El empleo del territorio venezolano como puente para las actividades de narcotráfico. Durante la época de prosperidad en Venezuela, muchas haciendas tenían su propia pista aérea pavimentada, las cuales terminaron en manos de los grupos ilegales, como se observa en esta imagen satelital de una de las pistas referenciadas por el documento de inteligencia as seen in this satellite image of one of the tracks referenced by the Venezuelan intelligence document. Indigenous communities denounced years ago the location of many of these tracks. The response of the Venezuelan Armed Forces consisted of an operation to destroy some of them.

An operation that many believe was simulated. the

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the the News Caracol spoke about the reconfiguration of the Monroe Doctrine, which Washington applied for the first time in 1823, two centuries ago.

The recent US military intervention in Venezuela puts the Monroe Doctrine back on the agenda, an foreign policy that dates back to 1823 and legitimizes the US intervention in internal processes of Latin American countries

to guarantee the protection and security of the region and the North American country as part of its interests.

Trump is a result of those changes in the international arena. Therefore, he does have a vision of traditional power, like that power specifically expressed by the use of force, of territorial power, of traditional territorial control.

But saying that it will control Venezuela while a transition is being made and also threaten other countries like Colombia, like Cuba, isn't a pretty strong vision

of the approach to the Monroe Doctrine?

Yes, of course, that's why I think it would be an extension of the Monroe Doctrine. This is a change, that's why it's not a return. For Donald Trump, it seems that Latin America is simply, simply an extension of his country. And that, therefore, here it's not even about

the interests of the United States, but it's control oil that was stolen.

Although there has not been any direct talk of military intervention by the United States in other countries in the region,

for some, it does leave a precedent for the revisions that will make that power to nations that are not aligned with their interests. The crimes of which Maduro is accused

mark a line of conduct and a path from now on that will open the eyes to many others who in the region tend to make this type of governments or leadership based on alliances with organized crime. If they are going to control the weapons, they are going to control again, I suppose, I want to believe that they are going to control the hectares of coca plantations in Colombia again,

return to the manual eradication plans, why not think of a plan Colombia 2?

Even security policies can mark a new order in Latin America.

The new national security strategy and the Trump-Monroe doctrine, with the United States having a greater presence in Latin America, greater hemispheric control, and of course, Venezuela as a central point in this new strategy of geopolitical repositioning of the United States and expulsion of extra-regional powers.

The mere fact that we do not have a mechanism of political dialogue that is sufficiently solid and unifying so that the countries of the region can sit down to dialogue around what all this type of processes already tells us a lot about the region we are in. So this is what is going to do is continue to fracture even more bilateral relations

of the countries of the region, between one and the other.

It's one in the afternoon of 33 Minutes. We continue with this analysis and we start with this last, Ronald. The Monroe Doctrine, America for Americans. What is the final goal of the United States and the interference of more than other countries in Latin America?

I'm referring, for example, to Russia, Iran, and China.

Indeed, Pablo. In the case of Venezuela, particularly Venezuela, it was the gateway to these extracontinental powers to the region. Venezuela was fundamental for the arrival of Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, and has become a space that,

unfortunately, for the interests of the United States, affects its dynamics in the regional game. Today, for example, a large part of the infrastructure in Latin America is not carried out by North American companies, but by Chinese companies. And that bothers, irritates the President of the United States,

so much so that he has pressured the multilateral bank to remove the financing of those infrastructure works that are made or developed by the Chinese in Latin American territory. And I think that Donald Trump's interest, and precisely carrying out this action,

starting with Venezuela, has as its objective to make these extracontinental powers feel that the United States wants to dominate the area. action in Sandoval Venezuela Tini come up get to you. I said listen to this potential to start continentalist. Kestel's when he was killed in a larry.

It's only a paper. I'll see you in the pregunta que tiene que ver con Petroleo. Is he more like went to 23 spaces mentioned

or your lapel. I will petroleo it is a

cable recuperar. of the United States, what does it mean? Well, Venezuelan oil is Venezuelan, not from the United States. The United States has now had concessions for the exploitation of oil, that is, to help in the process of extracting oil, refining and commercializing it. But that oil does not belong to the United States, it belongs to the Venezuelans. The tone, the intentionality of what President Donald Trump says in his speech. In fact, when you look at that speech, you realize that the oil issue, the migration issue,

becomes part of that narrative that goes into the United States. And we cannot forget that this year, precisely 2026, is also an election year in the United States and that part of the US electorate is upset, especially the Latin minorities who feel that the president has persecuted them.

So it creates a whole dynamic of speeches where oil is mixed, migration is mixed, and even the accusation against Venezuela of drug terrorism to generate a speech that is quite confusing outside the US, but that is very coherent within the US. Confused or para fuera de Estados Unidos pero que es muy coherente al interior de los Estados Unidos

He lands a una frase al inicio or mejor al final de esta rueda de prensa cuando se dan las preguntas

Que le dicen que va a pasar en esa transición y dice Estados Unidos se queda mientras haya esa transición que significa

Bueno en la práctica realmente Estados Unidos en este momento no tiene el control de Venezuela control de Venezuela lo siguen ejerciendo lamentablemente la dictadura que hoy no tiene al dictador pero que sigue Venezuela, without any kind of authority, because they don't have it. The Venezuelan administration's dynamics has worried several countries in the region, and not without fear. There is a need to tell the United States, one thing is to get out of a dictator,

of the characteristics of what Venezuela is experiencing, and another thing is to pretend to carry this kind of behavior

to other countries in the region. One in the afternoon, 44 minutes. Governments around the world are surprised by the consequences of the US military operation in Venezuela. China demanded the immediate release of Nicolas Maduro and described the attack on Venezuelan territory as a violation of international law. Meanwhile, five Latin American and Spanish countries

warned that it feels like a dangerous precedent. The Chinese government, one of Venezuela's most important allies, described the attack on Venezuelan territory as a violation of international law. And through a statement, it claimed that China asked the United States to guarantee the personal security of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, to release them immediately and to stop overthrowing the Venezuelan government.

Turkey, on the other hand, called on the parties to exercise restraint and prevent the current situation from leading to adverse consequences for regional and international security. A statement that presents a growing concern, the dangers of ignoring international law. The UN was the first to leave it for granted on Saturday. Today, France joined. Although President Macron backed Maria Corina Machado,

French Chancellor Jean-Noël Barraud expressed concern for the implications of the military operation. Spain initially spoke independently to make a call for the de-escalation, responsibility and respect for international law and the principles of the United Nations Charter. And a few hours ago, it joined five Latin American countries, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, to issue a statement expressing their rejection of military actions carried out unilaterally and warning that a dangerous precedent is felt. Pope Leo XIV also expressed his concern for Venezuela after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

In his Dominican greeting from the Vatican, the pontiff made a call to respect the human and civil rights of all people.

The good of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over any other consideration and lead us to overcome violence and undertake justice and peace paths, guaranteeing the sovereignty of the country, guaranteeing the right to the state, consecrated in the Constitution.

And it is that in the panorama for Venezuela there are more questions than answers. and peace. that the opposition had to leave the country. And he spoke of the leadership of Maria Corina Machado. The political future of Venezuela

still has no clear direction.

Venezuela entered a new stage after the capture of Nicolás Maduro. The US operation reconfigures the political picture and opens up multiple questions about its immediate future.

What is coming for that country?

It is an uncertainty as to how this is going to be negotiated and who can get the maximum possible benefits. Chavismo is in a very diminished situation, which is under threat of a second wave of attacks with the capacity it already demonstrated to carry out successful incursions in Venezuela,

but without the interest of carrying out operations of greater scope that could have a greater political cost. There is the snake still moving, controlling the threads of power in Venezuela, with Delci Rodríguez and with all the ministerial trait that Maduro named, in a bold, even challenging position in front of the US government, despite what happened.

If we go to a transition, one can understand that it is not possible a transition if you do not manage to agree

with a sector of officialism.

Although Maduro's fall marks a political breakpoint in Venezuela, experts warn that this does not imply an automatic transition. For them, the neighboring country faces a void of leadership, with weak institutions and without a roadmap for a transition of government.

What we have in front of us is a situation where we are in the middle of a great negotiation, with multiple small internal negotiations, where so far what we are seeing are the tacit positions on the part of Chavismo, explicit on the part of Donald Trump, who has said that he is going to handle Venezuela, and that he is going to carry out a process, let's say, I haven't used those terms, but it can be understood like that from the point of view of political science,

of external political tutelage.

The role of the Bolivarian Armed Forces and the ability to lead the opposition in the coming days will be decisive for the future of Venezuela.

Chavismo has control over the population and the institutions, what remains of them, and the United States has already made it very clear with this operation at dawn on Saturday that there is no type of military stop that can prevent them from carrying out operations

on Venezuelan territory. The task is not complete. There is still a lot to do. Many Venezuelans who are currently out of Venezuela and who would like to return to Venezuela understand that we cannot return to Venezuela at this time. Why? Because the dictatorship is still there.

Because the structure is still there.

Economically, Venezuela is still hit by low oil production, overinflation, high levels of informality and a strong dependence on remittances. Analysts agree that even without a political change, the economy could be the first to recover. is of a single sector, which is oil. This panorama is followed by a complex social situation. Millions of Venezuelans live in poverty, with public services deteriorated and access to health and education limited. Massive migration continues to be one of the main consequences of the crisis

and could intensify if there are no clear signs of stability.

This path does not look clear because it would mean that you took away Maduro, but in the end, everything is the same. And it's an unacceptable path for Venezuelans because we're going to start asking ourselves, Maduro left, but in the end, the dictatorship continues.

The panorama for Venezuela is uncertain and generates divided reactions. While some governments see the event as an opportunity for political change,

others warn about the impact of a greater regional tension and the need for a negotiated exit in Gracias por acompañarnos. Buenas tardes, Pablo. ¿Cómo están? María Teresa, con la decisión de Estados Unidos, con la captura de Nicolás Maduro, ¿cuál es la intención de Estados Unidos?

¿Qué mensaje envía a otros países?

Pablo, en este caso, el mensaje del presidente Trump, en donde él hace valer sus intereses y los equipara a los intereses de Estados Unidos, es que estos están por encima, where he makes his interests count and equates them to the interests of the United States, is that these are above, many times, and in this case, the laws, the international codes, specifically, for example, the United Nations Charter, which says in its chapter 7 that yes, a country has the right to use weapons, but for legitimate defense, to defend itself

when it is attacked by another in the framework of a declared war. the to make the laws work. But in this case, Trump's message can be read as countries that have strength, that have military power, can make their interests work regardless of what international law

and written laws say.

I wanted to ask about that topic. Look at the New York Times editorial that titles, Trump's attack on Venezuela is illegal and reckless, and the rejection of many countries

that consider there is a violation of sovereignty. What is your opinion?

Pablo, I think we are in a world where this has been changing for a while. If we take, for example, the case of Russia, we must know that Russia has already said that there were certain similarities, for example, with what happened this weekend and with the case of Ukraine. And we have here that there are two countries that have power, as I said before, that have the weapons and the way to make their interests count, call them territorial or resources, oil can be in this case, and make it count through weapons and not through laws. This leads the world to new moments that can be very complicated.

Precisely, to that end goes my next question. Are we entering another chapter of international order?

I think, Pablo, that yes. And as I said before, we have not entered that chapter again now, but it has been happening for decades, for great moments, with the interventions in the Middle East, in Libya, in Syria, with a UN Security Council and a regime, let's call it the United Nations,

that is turning 80, that is aging and that seems not to be very effective against the dynamics and problems of today's dynamics and problems. In that sense, yes, we are facing a changing world

with an international system that is looking for new rules with an international system that is looking for new rules

and for now, the powerful countries are imposing them.