The Daily Mail offers a piece on Air Force General John Cane explaining the takedown of Maduro.
The most senior member of the United States
military has offered a grippingly detailed account of how Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro was captured.
General John Daniel 'Raizin' Cane, who is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, said 150 US military aircraft stationed across the western hemisphere
had waited for weeks for the perfect moment to strike, before it finally
arrived on Friday.
Addressing journalists at President
Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday, Cane said preparations to capture , on Saturday,
Cane said preparations to capture Maduro and his wife Cilia began in August
2025 when CIA spies began monitoring the Maduros movements.
Cane said: 'We
watched, we waited, we prepared, we remained patient and professional...
'After months of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and
understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled, what he ate, what
he wore, what were his pets.
'In early December our force was set pending a series of aligned events.
Key was choosing the right day to minimize the potential for civilian harm and
maximize the element of surprise and minimize the harm to the indicted person
so, as the president says, they could be brought to justice.'
The optimum moment finally arrived late Friday night, Cane explained,
with Trump ordering the mission at 10:46pm ET.
'He said to us "Good luck and God Speed,' Cane recalled. 'Those
words were transmitted to the entire joint force.'
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