Over Two Weeks After Maduro's Capture, What is Life Like in Venezuela?
Over Two Weeks After Maduro's Capture, What is Life Like in Venezuela? — a Fronts video briefing on Strategy & Defense.
Simon Whistler • January 20, 2026
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At the start of the year when american special forces burst into caracas captured maduro and spirited him and his wife off to the uss iwo jima they did three things one fulfilled a long-held goal of president trump and secretary of state marco rubio two proved a ton of predictions wrong proving that accurately reading the geopolitical tea leaves is no easy
Feat and three they guaranteed that venezuela would remain in the news for the foreseeable future since the raid on the 3rd january a news item about venezuela has dominated the news cycle nearly every day this year whether it's questions on who would rule in maduro's absence speculation on why the opposition was snubbed or questions about the viability of
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