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On January 3, 2026, U.S. forces carried out a bold operation in Caracas that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores — a decisive move that finally delivered a long-overdue measure of accountability to a regime accused of running a narco-state. This was not diplomacy; it was law enforcement backed by muscle, and American taxpayers should be proud to see the government act to protect our borders and our neighborhoods from the poison that flowed from Maduro’s cartel-linked networks.
After the capture, Maduro was transported to the United States and is now being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is set to face federal narcotics and weapons charges in Manhattan federal court. Let every critic who screamed about “overreach” remember: when foreign tyrants traffic in drugs and sponsor violence that kills Americans, rule-of-law action is both legitimate and necessary.
The mission — reported as a large-scale, coordinated action involving U.S. special operations, intelligence assets, and air support — demonstrated the kind of operational competence sorely missing from weak administrations that let chaos fester in our hemisphere. This was Operation Absolute Resolve in practice: precise, muscular, and aimed at a clear criminal target, carried out by units trained to get the job done when diplomacy and sanctions failed.
Make no mistake, the strike had a cost: reports indicate dozens were killed, including Cuban personnel embedded with Maduro’s security detail, a sobering reminder that the regime’s survival depends on toxic foreign partnerships. While we mourn innocent lives lost in any conflict, the real moral outrage should be against the kleptocrats and the foreign sponsors who turned Venezuela into a narco-run hollow state that pushed migrants, drugs, and misery onto our streets.
Federal prosecutors have now charged Maduro with narcoterrorism, cocaine importation, and weapons offenses, and the wheels of American justice will now turn in open court — exactly where a criminal like him belongs, not on the throne of a failed state. Conservatives should applaud that America is not pretending lawlessness is acceptable when it comes from a foreign palace; we will put bad actors on trial and protect our people first.
Foreign policy experts on the right and center are already warning about the wider consequences, and even Council on Foreign Relations president Mike Froman told viewers that Iran and other malign actors must take this shift seriously as a signal the United States will act to defend its interests. Let this be a clear message to Tehran, Moscow, Havana and their proxies: backing tyrants and cartels will carry real costs, and American resolve will not be mistaken for weakness.
