Rob Lenihan
It was the night the lights went out in Caracas.
The pre-dawn raid that saw U.S. special operations forces seize President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, Cilia Flores, reportedly began with cyber-attacks that cut off power to large areas of the South American country’s capital city to allow planes and helicopters to strike key military sites.
President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. used cyberattacks or other technical capabilities to cut power off in Caracas, according to Politico.
“It was dark, the lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have, it was dark, and it was deadly,” Trump said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago detailing the operation.
Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Space Command, and combatant commands “began layering different effects” to “create a pathway” for U.S. forces flying into the country, but he did not elaborate on what those “effects” entailed.
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