Is the U.S. Running Venezuela or Not?
Radio Atlantic
The Atlantic
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:47.8 | By all accounts, the US military's raid in Venezuela on Saturday was efficient, clean, meticulously planned. |
| 1:01.0 | President Trump, who watched it unfold in Mar-a-Lago, said it was like a TV show. |
| 1:07.0 | Dead of night, Delta Force troops burst into Nicolas Maduro's compound and captured him and his wife. |
| 1:14.3 | Soon after, Trump posted a picture of the Venezuelan dictator on social media, |
| 1:19.0 | blindfolded, wearing headphones, and with his hands apart, like he'd just dropped the controls. |
| 1:25.6 | But since that military operation, everything about the U.S. |
| 1:30.2 | government's entanglement with Venezuela is murky and messy. I'm Hanna Rosen. This is Radio Atlantic. |
| 1:38.3 | If the goal of the Venezuelan raid was to capture a defendant wanted in U.S. courts for suspected |
| 1:44.1 | narco-terrorism, |
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