Overview
- Semafor, citing two people familiar with contacts between officials and the outlets, reports the Times and Post were briefed shortly before the raid and chose not to publish immediately.
- Editors delayed after warnings that disclosure could endanger U.S. personnel, a voluntary practice consistent with past national-security reporting restraint.
- The Caracas operation resulted in Nicolás Maduro’s capture and transfer to New York to face charges including narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine-importation conspiracy, and weapons offenses.
- Trump approved the mission at 10:46 p.m. Friday, and senior officials later praised the secrecy and reported no U.S. fatalities.
- A New York Times journalist cited a senior Venezuelan official reporting at least 40 military and civilian deaths as a preliminary figure that remains unverified.