US Officials Reveal How US Dismantled Caracas Air Defense
A high-ranking official from the Bolivarian Military aviation asserted that the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, succeeded due to a combination of electronic warfare, precision strikes, and critical failures within Venezuela’s air defense system. he revealed this in an interview with journalist Sebastiana Barráez for Infobae.According to the testimony, the operation, dubbed “Absolute Resolution,” carried out by U.S. military forces, featured “surgical precision” and long-term planning. This included prior suppression of air defense (SEAD/DEAD) operations and the collection of radio-electronic signatures from Venezuelan territory.
“The goal was a high-value extraction operation: the live capture of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores,” the official explained, requesting anonymity for security reasons. He stated that elite U.S.units, including Delta Force, participated in the mission, with support from agencies like the CIA, as part of a larger operation called Southern Lance.the military source indicated that for weeks, even months before the incursion, the U.S.conducted aerospace operations to map Venezuela’s air defense system.