🇺🇸🇻🇪 HOW U.S. FORCES TRACKED AND CAPTURED MADURO: THE INSIDE DETAILS U.S. intelligence located Maduro through meticulous "pattern of life" surveillance conducted by CIA teams on the ground in Caracas for months before the raid. Agents mapped his daily routines—what he ate (specific meals and times), how he dressed, who he met, and exactly where he slept each night inside his fortified residence at Fuerte Tiuna military base. A high-level insider source provided real-time updates, combined with signals intelligence and physical tracking. The CIA knew his bedroom location behind heavy steel doors designed like a panic room or bank vault. To prepare, Delta Force built an exact replica of the compound (including the steel-doored bedroom) at a U.S. training site. Operators rehearsed the assault repeatedly, breaching, clearing rooms, extraction, until perfected. The team carried high-powered thermal cutters (blowtorches) specifically for those steel doors. In the actual raid, speed was key: operators burst in so fast that Maduro and Cilia Flores were caught before they could fully seal the panic room. They were zip-tied near the entrance as they scrambled toward safety. No major resistance inside; the decisive edge was precise intel and overwhelming velocity. Sources: @freddyzur, NYT Times