Over Two Weeks After Maduro's Capture, What is Life Like in Venezuela?
Simon Whistler · January 20, 2026 · 14 min video · Americas
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Over Two Weeks After Maduro's Capture, What is Life Like in Venezuela? — a Fronts video briefing on Strategy & Defense.
Chapters
- Joy Turns to Fear in Post-Maduro VenezuelaIn the free preview
- Overseas Venezuelans Face an Impossible ChoiceInsiders
- Economic Ruin and the Long Road AheadInsiders
From the transcript
At the start of the year, when American special forces burst into Caracas, captured Maduro and spirited him and his wife off to the USSR 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 is dominated the news cycle nearly every day this year.
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