The mother of a Venezuelan 18-year-old recalled the last message her son sent her as the U.S. operation to capture authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro began.
"I love you. It has begun," Saul Pereira Martinez told his mother. Natividad Martinez, his mother, said her son had finished his shift on guard duty at Fuerte Tiuna, but was caught in the assault. He had just completed initial training with the Honor Guard in December and was studying at the military academy.
