The U.S. captures Maduro.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Early Saturday morning, the United States military conducted air strikes in Venezuela and carried out an operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Shortly thereafter, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been indicted in the Southern District of New York and charged with “Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States.” In a press conference later in the day, President Donald Trump said that the United States will assume control of Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.”
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle |
| 0:08.4 | good morning good afternoon and good evening and good evening and welcome the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and we are back from New Year's break, and it's a new world. |
| 0:36.3 | Today, we are going to be covering the capture and arrest of |
| 0:41.4 | Nicholas Maduro, Venezuela's former president now, I suppose. It is a crazy story. I'm still |
| 0:50.7 | processing a lot of the information we have coming out, but I'm going to share what we know. |
| 0:55.7 | We're going to share some views from the left and the right. We're going to catch you up on some of the news that you missed. |
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