{"id":5262,"date":"2026-01-10T21:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:06:42","slug":"months-in-planning-over-in-two-and-a-half-hours-how-the-us-snatched-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/10\/months-in-planning-over-in-two-and-a-half-hours-how-the-us-snatched-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Months in planning, over in two and a half hours: how the US snatched Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a swift military operation on January 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife in Caracas and transported them to New York to face narco-terrorism charges. The raid utilized elite Delta Force teams and over 150 aircraft to neutralize Venezuelan air defenses and achieve total air dominance in just two and a half hours. Intelligence gathered over months, including data from a human source within the Venezuelan government, allowed the US to pinpoint Maduro\u2019s exact location at the Fuerte Tiuna compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 4, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/04\/tactical-surprise-and-air-dominance-how-the-us-snatched-maduro-in-two-and-a-half-hours\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a swift military operation on January 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife in Caracas and transported them to New York to face narco-terrorism charges. The raid utilized elite Delta Force teams and over 150 aircraft to neutralize Venezuelan air defenses and achieve total air dominance in just two and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}