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BREAKING: US Strikes Venezuela, Captures Maduro

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In a special edition, ABC’s Pentagon reporter Luis Martinez and Latin America reporter Matt Rivers break down the U.S. military’s strikes on Caracas and the capture of leader Nicolas Maduro.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, it's Brad, midday on a Saturday coming to you with breaking news. You probably heard that

1:04.8

early this morning, the U.S. military launched an attack on Venezuela. Now, just to be clear,

1:10.1

there were no American troops marching in across borders,

1:12.6

but this was also much more than some simple missile strikes.

1:16.6

You see, under the cover of darkness, U.S. Special Forces did apparently fly into the capital of Caracas

1:22.6

and emerged carrying the leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro.

1:32.7

The U.S. has captured the sitting head of a foreign government, along with his wife.

1:37.2

President Trump just spoke about this in an address to the nation from Mar-a-Lago in Florida. All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered powerless as the men and women of our military working with U.S. law

1:45.7

enforcement successfully captured Maduro in the dead of night.

1:50.8

So today, we've got a special edition of start here just to catch you up on where we are.

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