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On January 3, 2026, the United States carried out a bold, pre-dawn operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture and removal of Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Caracas, a development President Trump announced to the country as a decisive victory against narco-authoritarianism. For years Washington promised action while Maduro’s regime exported chaos and drugs; this administration finally pulled the trigger where others only talked.
Make no mistake: this was America putting Americans first. Conservative patriots have watched our leaders waffle while foreign tyrants trafficked drugs and sowed instability across the hemisphere; taking concrete action to stop a narco-state is exactly the kind of assertive, results-driven policy voters demanded. The left will howl about “international norms,” but the real norm that matters is protecting American lives and borders.
Maduro and his wife were arraigned in federal court in Manhattan on January 5, 2026, where both pleaded not guilty to charges alleging wide-ranging narcotics and weapons conspiracies related to a long-running U.S. investigation. Bringing these criminal charges to the United States and forcing a public judicial process tears the veil off the regime’s impunity and puts its actions where they can finally be exposed and tried.
Reports indicate the operation was large and complex, involving U.S. special forces and intelligence assets and carried a real cost in lives and chaos on the ground, underscoring the seriousness of the threat Maduro posed and the scale required to end it. Critics will clutch their pearls over casualties and legalities, but Americans should ask if endless diplomatic handwringing would have ever stopped the cocaine that floods our streets and funds terror. The choice was action or continued American weakness.
President Trump has been blunt about the next steps, saying the United States will be involved in Venezuela’s future and even signaling a desire to rehabilitate Venezuela’s oil industry to benefit American energy security and global markets. This administration is making a hard-nosed calculation: restore stability, cut off criminal networks, and rebuild an economy under the rule of law rather than leave a failed petro-state as a playground for hostile powers. Those who call this imperialism forget that failing to act allowed Maduro to export misery and drugs to our doorstep for years.
The reaction from the usual suspects—global institutions, virtue-signaling elites, and the coastal media—has been predictable and hypocritical, while many Venezuelans and patriotic Americans quietly celebrated a long-overdue reckoning. Conservatives should hold our ground: demand transparency in the legal process, back the brave men and women who carried out a difficult mission, and insist that any involvement in Venezuela ends with a sovereign, free, and prosperous nation rather than a new occupation. America-first means defending our people and punishing those who use power to traffic in death and corruption, and this administration has shown it will do exactly that.
