A covert CIA team carried out sabotage operations in Venezuela to pave the way for the capture of authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro earlier in January, according to a new report.
Officials told The New York Times that the agency's more aggressive stance in the region is already producing results. Concretely, CIA director John Ratcliffe said intelligence collection in Latin America has increased by more than 50% since he took office. The number of human sources also climbed by 61%.
