Overview
- Social platforms are circulating a 2019 scene in which the CIA analyst character highlights Venezuela's vast resources and strategic proximity to the United States.
- President Donald Trump announced on January 3 that the U.S. carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and that Nicolás Maduro was detained on drug charges.
- Carlton Cuse, who produced the series, told Deadline the storyline was grounded in real geopolitical dynamics rather than intended as a prediction.
- News reports contrast the fiction with reported details of the operation, noting the administration’s drug-trafficking rationale and citing claims of about 150 U.S. aircraft and civilian casualties.
- Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty in U.S. federal court, with their next hearing scheduled for March 17.