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'Months of planning and rehearsal' for Maduro seizure: Top US general

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03-01-2026 | 12:17

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'Months of planning and rehearsal' for Maduro seizure: Top US general

The U.S. military operation to extract Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a nighttime raid in Caracas took "months of planning and rehearsal," and more than 150 US aircraft were used, top U.S. General Dan Caine told reporters Saturday.

"The word integration does not explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction so precise -- it involved more than 150 aircraft launching across the Western Hemisphere," Caine told a joint press conference with President Donald Trump.

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