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Americans woke Saturday to the sound of decisive action: the United States carried out a large-scale operation that President Trump said resulted in the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife. This was no half-measure or press-release theater — U.S. officials and independent reporting confirmed a bold, coordinated strike and the removal of Maduro from power, a move long called for by millions who’ve watched his regime traffic misery across our hemisphere.
Reports from the ground and from international correspondents describe explosions, targeted airstrikes around Caracas, and the work of elite U.S. special-operations forces in executing the takedown. Details point to a precision mission involving Special Operations units and aviation assets that achieved what years of sanctions and speeches could not: the capture of a narco-authoritarian ruler who enriched himself while his country starved.
Washington moved quickly to treat this as a law-enforcement and national-security issue; the Justice Department announced indictments charging Maduro and his wife with narcoterrorism and related offenses, and officials say they will face justice in U.S. courts. For too long the hollow handwringing of the international community allowed drug cartels and kleptocrats to export poison to our streets — tonight America made clear that lawlessness will not be rewarded.
Retired Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt, speaking on Newsmax’s America Right Now, called Maduro’s capture part of a “much bigger operation” and defended the president’s right to act to stop the flow of deadly drugs into our country — drugs tied to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans each year. Conservatives who have warned that cartel networks and state-enabled narco-regimes pose an existential public-safety threat should feel vindicated; the DEA and federal reporting have documented the devastation fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have wreaked on communities across the nation.
Predictably, tyrants and global elites cried foul, denouncing the operation as aggression while failing to name the victims inside our cities and towns. Their high-minded lectures ring hollow to mothers and fathers burying children struck down by poison pills and to frontline communities that have begged for action for years. Let them condemn — we will hold the line for Americans and for the powerless Venezuelans long abused by Maduro’s cartelized regime.
This was leadership in a moment that demanded it: steady, unapologetic, and rooted in protecting American lives and interests. If this operation is the pivot that finally unravels the Cartel de los Soles and returns Venezuela’s stolen wealth to its people while choking off criminal pipelines into our country, then history will judge it kindly. Hardworking Americans should stand behind decisive enforcement, not feckless diplomacy, and demand the same courage from their leaders at every turn.
