Overview
- Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced on state television that the Jan. 3 action resulted in 100 deaths and roughly 100 injuries.
- Cabello said Nicolás Maduro suffered a leg injury during detention, while Cilia Flores sustained a head wound.
- The Cuban government said 32 Cuban personnel sent to Venezuela at Caracas’s request were killed.
- Jiji reported that the U.S. military deployed more than 150 aircraft and special forces to seize Maduro and transfer him to the United States.
- Earlier U.S. media tallied about 80 deaths, and Jiji reported that roughly half of the dead may be civilians as details on nationalities remain unclear.