Brace yourself for a seismic shift in Latin American politics as President Donald Trump drops a bombshell about Venezuela’s controversial leader.
According to Breitbart, early on a Saturday morning, Trump revealed that Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s socialist strongman, along with his wife Cilia Flores, had been apprehended and removed from the country in a bold U.S.-led operation accompanied by widespread airstrikes across Caracas and beyond.
This dramatic announcement came on the heels of powerful explosions rocking the Venezuelan capital and other regions, signaling a significant military action against the regime.
Reports from the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional paint a grim picture, with large swaths of Caracas plunged into darkness after the strikes.
Residents are fleeing in droves from Fuerte Tiuna, the nation’s primary military stronghold, believed to shelter Maduro’s personal bunker and key regime facilities.
La Carlota, the main military airport, also took heavy hits, further crippling the regime’s operational capacity in a matter of hours.
Trump didn’t mince words, declaring, “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader,” adding that Maduro and his wife were “captured and flown out of the Country.”
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just a military flex—it’s a direct strike at a man long accused by U.S. courts of heading the Cartel of the Suns, a cocaine trafficking network aimed at flooding American streets with drugs.
Maduro, wanted on narco-terrorism charges with a staggering $50 million bounty on his head, has dodged accountability for years through sham elections; now, the game appears to be up.
In the wake of the chaos, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, himself wanted by the U.S. for drug trafficking, took to Instagram with a fiery video, calling the operation an “invasion representing the greatest outrage suffered by Venezuela.”
His rhetoric about a “regime change operation to submit Venezuela to the American Empire” might stir some hearts, but it reeks of desperation from a regime that’s clung to power through corruption and oppression. While Padrino López urges citizens to “avoid chaos and anarchy,” the silence from the rest of Maduro’s inner circle speaks volumes about the disarray following this U.S. strike.
Trump has promised more details during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago later on the same Saturday, a briefing that will likely shape the narrative of this unprecedented intervention.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt amplified Trump’s message by sharing his Truth Social post on X, ensuring the world takes notice of America’s resolve against tyrannical regimes.
As Venezuela reels from this operation, one thing is certain: the days of unchecked socialist oppression under Maduro may finally be numbered, though the path to stability remains fraught with uncertainty.