Christian Ruth
While Christmas and New Year celebrations took place, fleets of American stealth drones flew over Caracas, Venezuela. Largely invisible to the naked eye and radar systems, these eyes in the sky were gathering intelligence on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s routines, the defences of his compounds, and the layout of his possible escape routes. They were flying over Caracas late at night on 3 January, when American special operations forces captured Maduro.
The US Air Force deployed at least one of its highly secretive RQ-170 stealth drones over Caracas, and an unknown number of other intelligence gathering drones that provided them with real-time surveillance for special operations forces. Roughly 150 aircraft launched from 20 American military bases across the Western Hemisphere, over a dozen ships, and thousands of American military personnel were involved – directly or indirectly – in Operation Absolute Resolve.
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