Americans woke up on January 3 to startling news: the United States had struck the capital of Venezuela, captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and taken them back to New York to face American justice.

An elite U.S. special forces team practiced for months to conduct the riskiest operation since Seal Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist leader of al-Qaeda, responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

This mission to capture Maduro lasted eighty-eight minutes and is widely considered to have been carried out flawlessly. So how did they do it?

The Daily Wire breaks down what this mission looked like: the months the CIA spent surveilling Maduro, his habits, and his schedule. How Delta Force operatives trained to capture the dictator in a replica compound in Kentucky. The fleet of ships the U.S. slowly assembled outside Venezuela. Why the United States was forced to wait several days to launch the mission due to the weather. The nail-biting moments as President Donald Trump and his team watched the mission go down, and more.

It was, as the president said, a mission that only the United States could have carried out.

“This was one of the most stunning, effective, and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history,” he shared on Saturday.  “No nation in the world could achieve what America achieved yesterday, or frankly, in just a short period of time. All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered powerless as the men and women of our military, working with U.S. law enforcement, successfully captured Maduro in the dead of night.”

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