Strikes in Venezuela culminate in a snatch and grab which captures Maduro:

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/2007348444453884126

If Maduro was fucking with our elections through Venezuela's involvement in producing Smartmatic and Dominion voting machines, his ass is pretty much done. He will need to be made an example of, to show you do not fuck with the New America. Now lets talk about that Panama Canal….

Also worth noting, for the TIs, if Trump does unfuck our elections, we will get honest leaders, and if we get honest leaders, we may get honest law enforcement, and if we get honest law enforcement, domestic surveillance will be brought to justice, and we will not be dealing with all this shit in a few years. Keep the faith. Freedom is coming.

The US military appears to have blown up the mausoleum of former anti-US Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Quite symbolic.

Trump released pictures taken during the maduro raid:

Maybe they were told to pose this way to look tough, but if not, Rubio and Ratcliffe look very defensive and threatened, crossing their arms as if to subconsciously shield their bodies.

Covering the mouth is usually a subconscious expression of knowing things you cannot possibly let the people around you know. Rubio headed the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, which has oversight of the entire US IC. That is probably the first thing the conspiracy would compromise, after the ICIG. So I would assume he is watching a conspiracy he was a part of being taken down, and knows things he cannot speak of.

Rubio's expression here is weirdly dejected, IMO.

Ratcliffe again with the crossed arms, and it does not look posed, given the slight awkwardness of the right hand. Maybe here, as a pear-shaped pencil-pushing desk-driving intel weenie, he feels inferior to Hegseth’s Combat Arms guy, handling the work on the ground with the trigger pullers of Delta.

Other news said Maduro felt so secure he had given half the military leave for Christmas vacation, thinking Trump would never launch, and oddly, all of the close security he had (presumably now deceased) were Cubans. John MacAfee once said when he was in Cuba the street surveillance was all CIA-tradecraft/trained. And of course, Cuba was prominent in the Havana Syndrome story.

Newsmax says Congressional leadership tried to sabotage the operation, hopping to portray the dead troops and failed op as a Trump failure: https://x.com/Realpersonpltcs/status/2007611305503682993