Pentagon says two-hundred US forces took part in Caracas operation
"As nearly 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas.
"Seems those Russian air defenses didn’t work so well, did they?" Hegseth remarked at an event in Newport News, Virginia.
President Donald Trump has said that US military action on Saturday resulted in the detention of Maduro and his wife, first lady Cilia Flores, and pledged to maintain American oversight of Venezuela for the time being, including deploying US troops if necessary.
Hegseth emphasized that the operation achieved its objectives without loss of American life, describing the mission as seizing “an indicted individual wanted by American justice in support of law enforcement, without a single American killed.”
Maduro and Flores were transported to New York late Saturday and are being held at a detention facility in Brooklyn. On Monday, both pleaded not guilty to multiple gun and drug charges brought by the Trump administration.
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