Evening Edition: Team Of U.S. Veterans Lead Dangerous Mission To Extract Maria Machado

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The rescue operation to extract Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and transport her to Norway was led by a team of Veterans and involved a series dangerous steps, disguises and various components in land, sea and air. The mission, dubbed 'Operation Golden Dynamite', was directed by Bryan Stern, a U.S. special forces veteran and founder of the Tampa-based Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is entirely donor-funded which specializes in high-risk rescue missions and evacuations, especially from war and disaster zones. María Corina Machado hasn't been seen in public for almost a year, and she hadn't seen her children in even longer. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Bryan Stern, founder of Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, who shares with us what he can about the daring escape mission. To find out more and donate to the efforts of Grey Bull Rescue go to: https://greybullrescue.org/ Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.3	Monday, December 15th, 2025, I'm Eben Brown.
1:12.6	The escape and extraction of Venezuela's political opposition leader went down like a spy thriller
1:18.8	quickly under the cover of night and with special ops precision.
1:23.1	There's a level of security with these high-risk operations that most people don't appreciate to the extent that there are people on Maria's team that we weren't exactly transparent with. There are people who worked on this mission who do not know that they worked on this mission. They have no clue. This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition.
1:54.4	Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro would love to be rid of Maria Corina Machado. She's his chief political rival and perhaps way more popular than he is. Machado is no communist, quite
2:00.3	the opposite. But more importantly, she's a
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