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US Special Operations Forces Saved 170 Kids from Cartels Hours Before Bombs Dropped on Caracas
By
 Michael Baxter
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January 14, 2026

In the hours before US warplanes unleashed precision strikes on cartel strongholds in Caracas, small but lethal teams of Special Operation Forces—US Army Special Forces, Delta Force, and Navy SEALs—pulled off daring rescue missions, a prelude to Operation Absolute Resolve, extracting 170 young children, American citizens among them, from three “forced labor” camps around the city.

The missions took place in the urban sprawl where Maduro’s narco-allies had transformed abandoned warehouses into oppressive forced labor camps at which children, some as young as seven, bundled drugs in rooms where cocaine dust hung in the air like radioactive fallout.

At each location, US forces neutralized sentries and taskma