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What an NPR Reporter Witnessed After Maduro’s Removal Says Everything
by Carlos LoaMarch 7, 2026
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When even a correspondent from NPR is standing on the streets of Caracas describing the scene as “absolutely surreal” — and reporting that ordinary Venezuelans say “a weight has been lifted” — that is not a media story. That is a verdict on two decades of socialist tyranny, and on the American president who finally ended it.
NPR correspondent Eyder Peralta traveled to Venezuela in early March and reported his findings on air Friday, speaking with host Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition. What he described was not the chaos that critics of the Trump administration’s January operation had predicted. It was something closer to the first gasp of air from a country that had nearly suffocated.
“You go out on the streets and people here tell you that they feel like a weight has been lifted,” Peralta told his audience. For a network not known for charitable coverage of President Trump’s foreign policy moves, the report carried remarkable weight — not because NPR endorsed the operation, but because its own correspondent could not ignore what his eyes and ears were telling him.
The backdrop to Peralta’s visit is one of the most audacious military and law enforcement operations in modern American history. In the early hours of January 3, 2026, U.S. Armed Forces launched Operation Absolute Resolve — a large-scale strike across northern Venezuela that suppressed air defenses and sent an assault force directly into Maduro’s compound at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, in the heart of Caracas. Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured, transported to the USS Iwo Jima, and then flown to New York City to face narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and weapons charges that had been building in federal court since 2020. President Trump announced the operation publicly that morning from Mar-a-Lago.
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