Overview
- U.S. officials briefing lawmakers said Maduro and Flores struck their heads while trying to hide behind a low steel door during the Caracas operation.
- Delta Force operators captured the pair and provided first aid, with several U.S. personnel wounded in a firefight involving a Cuban rapid‑reaction force, according to the briefers.
- Cuba published names of 32 fallen personnel and Venezuela’s armed forces held funerals for 23 soldiers, while Venezuela’s attorney general assigned prosecutors to probe what he called dozens of deaths including civilians.
- In their New York court appearance, both showed visible injuries as Flores’s attorney sought medical imaging for suspected rib injuries, even as U.S. officials characterized her head wound as minor.
- Delcy Rodríguez assumed the interim presidency in Caracas and declared seven days of national mourning, and court records list the next U.S. hearing for Maduro and Flores on March 17, 2026, after not‑guilty pleas.