The US targeted four confirmed sites across Caracas in its targeted middle-of-the-night attack.
BBC Verify identified two military bases, a naval port and an airport after combing through various videos of explosions and smoke plumes.
Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base aka La Carlota — footage filmed at a distance shows two plumes of smoke and an explosion close to this military airfield in Caracas.
Port La Guaira — Caracas’ main conduit to the Caribbean Sea, located in Miranda state. Footage filmed nearby shows several plumes of smoke rising into the air, and at least one fire burning.
Higuerote Airport — also located in Miranda state, just east of Caracas. Footage filmed from two angles shows fire and repeated flashes on the ground, a possible indication of secondary explosions.
Fuerte Tiuna — The Getty news agency has released images of fire burning in the direction and damage to vehicles at this key military facility in Caracas. NASA satellites also detected heat signatures in the area at around the time that the US strikes took place.
President Trump ordered airstrikes on military sites around Caracas with at least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft, beginning around 2 a.m. local time.
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Amid the heightened tensions between the two countries, Trump also announced that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured by US forces an overnight military operation early Saturday.
“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Maduro and Flores are en route to NYC aboard the USS Iwo Jima to be officially indicted.
