Lily Ong
At approximately 0201 local time on January 3, America’s Delta Force, with support from the CIA and FBI, raided the Fuerte Tiuna military complex in Caracas, where Maduro and his wife were dashing for their heavily fortified “safe room” reinforced by steel. Although prepared to melt the door in 47 seconds with heavy-duty thermal cutters, the American commandos were so fast they intercepted and seized the couple in a “bum-rush” capture to render their blowtorches needless. By 0430, like human cargo on a terminal descent, Maduro and his wife were delivered onto US soil at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York.
One does not have to agree with America’s decision to capture Maduro to marvel at the precision with which the operation was conducted. The capture—an escalation of a months-long military buildup and blockade known as Operation Southern Spear that culminated in a decapitation strike known as Operation Absolute Resolve—is an event worth examining and note-taking by military strategists due to the surgical precision with which it was conducted.
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