PU 18: Trump's South American Adventure
How did the Trump government manage to capture the Venezuelan head of state in Caracas? And where they allowed to do so? Your won't hear the correct answer to that question from the legacy media?
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2024 (Federico Parra / AFP))
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Sources
- New details in daring US military operation to capture Maduro, his wife in Venezuela, ABC News, 6 January 2026
- Clinton on Qaddafi: We came, we saw, he died, CBS News, 20 October 2011
- Mock house, CIA source and Special Forces: The US operation to capture Maduro, Reuters, 4 January 2026
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- U.S. Unseals Drug Trafficking Charges Against Venezuela’s President Maduro, NPR, 26 March 2020
- What are the US charges against Venezuela’s Maduro?, France 24, 7 January 2026
- Justice Department Unseals Superseding Indictment in Maduro Case, Lawfare, 7 January 2026
- The Maduro Indictment Appears Legally Solid, The Atlantic, 8 January 2026
- In post-Maduro Venezuela, US eyes security chief as potential target, sources say, Reuters, 7 January 2026
- Maduro’s capture draws echoes of Noriega in 1990, Axios, 3 January 2026
- Music torture: How heavy metal broke Manuel Noriega, The BBC, 30 May 2017
- United States of America v. Nicolás Maduro et al., superseding indictment S2 11 Cr. 205 (AKH), US Department of Justice, undated (unsealed on 26 March 2020)
- United States of America v. Nicolás Maduro et al., superseding indictment S4 11 Cr. 205 (AKH), US Department of Justice, undated (unsealed on 3 January 2026)
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