“Caracas Done Got the Rumbles: Explosions, Low-Flyin’ Planes, & Folks Hollerin’ ‘Where’s Maduro?’”

By Joe, Boots-On-the-Ground Reporter

Well now… the sun wasn’t even up good yet when Caracas started shakin’ like Granny’s washing machine on spin cycle.

Multiple explosions went off across the city early Saturday morning. Witnesses say the sky filled with smoke, flashes lit up the night, and low-flying aircraft growled overhead like they was mad at the clouds. Some neighborhoods lost power, some folks lost sleep, and everybody lost their sense of calm.

Then comes the real barn-burner.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States carried out a “large-scale strike” and claimed that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were captured and flown out of Venezuela in coordination with U.S. law enforcement.

That ain’t a normal Tuesday announcement.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi followed it up sayin’ the pair would face charges in New York, connectin’ it to old drug-traffickin’ indictments.
Senator Mike Lee even went public askin’ whether the operation was constitutional, sayin’ Congress didn’t seem to get the memo before the fireworks started.

Over in Venezuela, the government called the whole thing an “imperialist attack”, said both civilian and military installations were hit, and urged the people:

“To the streets!”

Their vice president Delcy Rodríguez admitted they don’t even know where Maduro or his wife are, demandin’ proof of life while the country’s defense plans kicked into high gear.

That’s the kinda sentence you don’t hear unless the world just tilted.

Video verified by reporters shows smoke pourin’ from a military base hangar, flashes of repeated explosions, tracer rounds streakin’ the sky, and the ground shakin’ so hard locals said it felt like the air itself punched them in the chest.

The U.S. government clammed up after the announcement.
The Pentagon, the White House, and SOUTHCOM offered no immediate answers on where Maduro and Flores were taken or what comes next.

The FAA shut down U.S. flights over Venezuela and Curaçao, and the closed U.S. embassy warned Americans still inside the country to shelter in place.

International reactions rolled in faster than gossip at a church picnic.
Cuba and Iran condemned the strikes.
Argentina’s president praised the capture.

And just like that, Venezuela went from troubled politics to global crisis before most folks finished their first cup of coffee.

Casualty numbers? Unknown.
Legal authority for the strike? Still murky.
Where Maduro is right now? Nobody’s sayin’.

But one thing’s crystal clear:

The world just crossed a new fence, and nobody’s sure what’s on the other side yet.

Stay tuned.
This hillbilly’s watchin’ the smoke.