{"id":104360,"date":"2026-01-03T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104360\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:48:10","slug":"miami-dade-official-reacts-to-reports-of-maduros-capture-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104360\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade official reacts to reports of maduro\u2019s capture | Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Saturday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/mdctaxcollector.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez<\/a> released a statement in response to reports that Venezuelan <a title=\"Reports: maduro captured following U.S. &#x201C;large-scale strike&#x201D;Venezuelan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.islandernews.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/ede3602d-0495-45d6-b7af-dbc6f8020d83\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was captured<\/a> in a U.S.-led operation announced by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Fernandez said the operation targeted what he described as \u201ccriminal leadership operating from Venezuela\u201d and was conducted in coordination with U.S. law enforcement. He emphasized that the action was not directed against the Venezuelan people, but against criminal networks and corruption tied to the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThis operation was not directed against the Venezuelan people, but against criminal networks and corruption tied to the country\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez said the reported capture represents a significant moment for Venezuelans who fled political repression and now live in South Florida, noting Miami-Dade\u2019s large Venezuelan community.<\/p>\n<p>He also praised U.S. military and law enforcement personnel involved in the operation and expressed hope for democratic change in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The statement echoed earlier remarks from U.S. officials that no further action against Venezuela is planned.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details are expected to be released by the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early Saturday morning, Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez released a statement in response to reports that Venezuelan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54061,54062,54063,409,126,123,125,124,54064,5883,54060,807,4390],"class_list":["post-104360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crisis-in-venezuela","tag-dariel-fernandez-fernandez","tag-dariel-fernandez-statement-on-venezuela","tag-donald-trump","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-response-to-maduro","tag-nicols-maduro","tag-nicols-maduro-capture","tag-south-florida","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}