US military carries out strikes in Venezuela
The US military carried out strikes in Venezuela early Saturday morning, US officials confirmed to PK Press Club. Multiple explosions could be observed in the capital Caracas and neighboring areas. (CREDIT: Associated Press)
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The Milwaukee Brewers say they are unaware of the status of several players currently in Venezuela after the U.S. military carried out strikes on the country and detained President Nicolás Maduro.
Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold revealed the team was currently unaware of the players’ status in a statement released Saturday.
“We don’t have a lot of information right now but we’re trying to follow up,” Arnold said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “We know the airports have been closed, but not much beyond that.”
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The Milwaukee Brewers celebrate a single by center fielder Jackson Chourio during the tenth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 9, 2025. (Patrick Gorski/Imagn Images)
The team’s players currently in Venezuela include star outfielder Jackson Chourio, infielder Andruw Monasterio and catcher Jeferson Quero, according to the outlet.
The recent US military strike comes as suspected people drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific.
Armed forces carried out a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela early Saturday morning and arrested Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife, President Donald Trump confirmed.
The president wrote on Truth Social that the operation was successful and that Maduro and his wife were “captured and expelled from the country.” Trump said the operation was carried out with the collaboration of U.S. law enforcement.
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At least seven explosions could be heard in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, early Saturday morning, according to the Associated Press, and low-flying planes were seen flying over Caracas around 2 a.m. local time. The helicopters seen flying over Caracas were part of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the “Night Stalkers.”
The Venezuelan government said in a statement that “civil and military localities in the city of Caracas, capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira” were affected by the attack.
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Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio (11) is seen before the fifth inning of an MLB game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Toronto Blue Jays on August 31, 2025, at the Rogers Center in Toronto, Ontario. (Mathew Tsang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The statement also accuses the United States of committing “very serious military aggression” against Venezuela and of carrying out “imperialist aggression.”
“The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, in particular its oil and minerals, by attempting to break the political independence of the nation by force,” the Venezuelan government said in a statement. “They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate government remain determined to defend sovereignty and the inalienable right to decide their own destiny.”
