{"id":4833,"date":"2026-01-04T07:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/04\/us-military-operation-detains-venezuelan-president-maduro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:05:53","slug":"us-military-operation-detains-venezuelan-president-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/04\/us-military-operation-detains-venezuelan-president-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"US Joint Chiefs Detail Military Operation Detaining Venezuelan President Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that American forces have detained Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife in a planned military operation.<\/p>\n<p>General Dan Quinn stated in a press conference that the operation involved approximately 150 aircraft, and US forces reached areas near Maduro\u2019s residence at 1:01 a.m. He added that the operation was conducted at night with high precision.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US military chief, military helicopters encountered counterattacks during the mission, but the forces responded decisively within the framework of self-defense. He emphasized that in the end, Maduro and his wife surrendered and were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>General Quinn further explained that preparations for the operation took several months, and US intelligence agencies had detailed information on Maduro\u2019s movements, daily habits, and specifics related to his residence.<\/p>\n<p>He said environmental conditions were \u201ccompletely favorable\u201d for carrying out the operation, and all US personnel returned to their bases without any casualties or injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US forces detained Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife in a carefully planned military operation, with no casualties reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}