Maduro 710: Oil, Power, and the Price of a Nation

On January 3, 2026, American special operations forces breached the presidential compound in Caracas in the most audacious military raid since the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Thirty-two Cuban bodyguards died in fierce resistance. Eighty-three people were killed in a single night. Nicolás Maduro was blindfolded, shackled, and paraded through the streets of New York City.

This book tells you why.

MADURO 710 traces the full arc of Venezuela's collapse — from the world's largest oil reserves (303 billion barrels) to a nation that cannot keep its lights on. It documents Russia's $17 billion Caribbean gambit, China's $62 billion debt trap, a $900 million Turkish gold pipeline, Iran's sanctions-busting flights, and the CIA mole who made the capture possible. It exposes the Cartel de los Soles narco-state, the $350 million CLAP fraud network, and the moment a president's nephews were caught smuggling 800 kilograms of cocaine on a government jet.

Drawing on court filings, U.S. Department of Justice indictments, Treasury Department sanctions records, United Nations fact-finding reports, and investigative journalism from Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, and the Wall Street Journal, this documentary narrative reconstructs how oil, power, corruption, and geopolitical chess converged in Operation Absolute Resolve.

From the courtroom where a 92-year-old federal judge heard Maduro declare "I am a kidnapped president" to the Trump administration's admission that the raid was about "total access" to Venezuelan oil — this is the definitive account of the capture that shook the world.