U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that nearly 200 American troops entered central Caracas during a pre-dawn operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, openly questioning the effectiveness of Russian-made air defense systems used by Venezuela.
Speaking during a visit to the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia, Hegseth praised the raid that led to Maduro's arrest and transfer to U.S. federal custody. "Nearly 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas," Hegseth said. "Seems those Russian air defenses didn't quite work so well, did they?"
