Maduro has been captured. What's next? - by Peter Wildeford
About the author: Peter Wildeford is a top forecaster, ranked top 1% every year since 2022. Here, he shares the news and analysis that informs his forecasts. At 2am local time in Caracas on January 3rd, explosions lit up the night sky over Venezuela’s capital. By 5:21am, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores had been “captured and flown out of the Country.” The operation, codenamed Absolute Resolve, deployed approximately 150 aircraft and sent Maduro to New York to face narco-terrorism charges. And in what could be symbolism or coincidence, the operation occurred exactly 36 years to the day after the US’s capture of Panama’s Manuel Noriega and exactly 6 years after Trump’s strike on Iran’s Qasem Soleimani. But execution is not the same as strategy. While the operation itself appears to have been flawlessly executed, what comes next isn’t clear. Let’s dig in. Share Like most events, this is just the continuation of decades of hist
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