{"id":352172,"date":"2026-01-04T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:46:07","slug":"from-caracas-fort-to-new-york-court-maduros-capture-in-pictures-and-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352172\/","title":{"rendered":"From Caracas &#8216;fort&#8217; to New York court: Maduro&#8217;s capture in pictures and maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once on the ground, troops from the US Army&#8217;s Delta Force, an elite special forces unit, moved quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They gained access to the compound at 02:01 local time, and the Maduros &#8220;gave up&#8221; without a struggle, Gen Caine said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Trump gave more details. The Maduros tried to escape into a safe place, the US president explained, describing it as a military &#8220;fortress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The safe place is all steel, and he wasn&#8217;t able to make it to the door because our guys were so fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a very thick door, a very heavy door,&#8221; Trump told reporters. &#8220;He made it to the door. He was unable to close it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But even if they had managed to get into the safe room, Trump said troops could have blown it open in about &#8220;47 seconds&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once on the ground, troops from the US Army&#8217;s Delta Force, an elite special forces unit, moved quickly.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-352172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}