Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro
The New York Times••nation
Key Points:
- President Trump and key administration officials watched the Delta Force raid capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in real time from Mar-a-Lago.
- The operation involved months of planning, including constructing a model of Maduro’s safe house for special forces to rehearse the raid.
- The pre-dawn raid by elite Army Delta Force commandos was described as the riskiest U.S. military operation since the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid.
- Trump praised the flawless execution of the mission, noting the rapid breach of steel doors protecting Maduro.
- Gen. Dan Caine detailed the operation’s intelligence phase, with CIA teams on the ground since August gathering information on Maduro.
