Will Geddes
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The Trial: USA · The Maduro Case: Power, Prosecution, and a President in Chains · 9 Jan 2026
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And although many international special forces units, including those from the United Kingdom, have been involved in counter-narco operations,
the weight and the sheer mass of drugs that are being moved over.
This was a highly organized trading stream which was being utilized and had to be stopped.
But in addition to that, there is a far greater macro economic situation and consideration that needed to be taken under advisement by President Trump and by Peter Hagsworth and the team were very much towards the infiltration into Venezuela
by hostile states that we could include within China as well as Russia and also potentially Iran, who have been ingratiating themselves into Venezuela, which is naturally in contravention to the sanctions which are currently in place against Venezuela.
And the enormous oil reserves and precious metals and mineral reserves that are available within Venezuela
These were being exploited by these foreign states, which would put them in a very capable position for a number of other actions that they may consider in the future.
There is a number of different parts to an operation like this and the complexity of each of those parts brings its own weight and brings its own risks and issues.
The first of which is obviously the planning and the feasibility and viability of undertaking an extraction operation.
And having been involved in a number of extractions, nothing of this profile I should add, myself over the years,
one has to look at the ability to be able to extract your HBT or high value target.
Now, when it comes to an extraction, you are very reliant on local intelligence, whether that be individuals within closer proximity to the HBT, whether it be other assets that have been cultivated by intelligence agencies,
And therefore, it's highly likely in this particular operation, the CIA had recruited a number of individuals that were going to assist in this effective extraction of President Medeiros, especially when one considers how quickly this operation was undertaken within.
The second thing is looking at the viability of actually getting your assault team within the country safely and within a secure corridor where you can disable any kind of countermeasures, whether that be ground forces, aviation defences and various other different means of defence which the country might use to try and repel any intruders or invaders.
So there would have been many, many months of planning of this particular operation to see the levels of detection on close proximity to the country.
And this certainly is believed to attribute to those recent 160th SOAR operations which were running off the coast and certainly in the interventions and interdictions of some of the drug boats which were moving out of Venezuela.
Now, we know that there was a ground force of approximately 200 military that were inserted.
But prior to that, they had to disable, obviously, the ground-to-air defenses of Venezuela.
create that safe corridor for three types of aircraft to potentially penetrate.
And that includes, obviously, Chinooks, which would take in the 75th Ranger Regiment that were providing the ground support.
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