US EditionDark, Wet, Choppy: Machado's Secret Sea Escape From Venezuela
A U.S. special forces veteran led a privately funded extraction of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who escaped persecution after months in hiding.
- On Tuesday, Bryan Stern, head of Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, led Maria Corina Machado's extraction from Venezuela, detailed in a CBS interview Thursday after she emerged in Norway.
- Machado had been hiding since January, fearing persecution by President Nicolás Maduro, and Stern's group, the Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, only conducts extractions for safety, not return operations.
- Disguised and at night, she boarded a boat for a 13-14 hour journey to an undisclosed sea rendezvous, with the team facing dark, choppy seas, Stern said, `The sea conditions were ideal for us, but certainly not water that you would want to be on... the higher the waves, the harder it is for radar to see`.
- Machado has announced plans to return home, though it is unclear how or when she will do so, while Stern said his group did `unofficially collaborate` with the US military to avoid airstrikes.
- Stern said private donors financed the mission and `The US government did not contribute a single penny to this operation, at least not that I know of`, while Machado said she had US support to leave Venezuela.
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"The U.S. government did not contribute a penny to this operation, unless I know," said the Special Forces veteran.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that his government's current pressure campaign on Venezuela "treats on many things" and, again, has pointed out issues such as immigration or drug trafficking."It's about many things," Trump responded by being asked in the Oval Office about whether the current military deployment in the Caribbean is "on drug trafficking or on oil," in reference to the Venezuelan oil tanker that Washington seized on Wedn…
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U.S. Special Forces Veteran Who Extracted Maria Corina Machado From Venezuela Says Choppy Seas Helped Operation: 'It Was Scary'
The U.S. special forces veteran who helped extract Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado from the country and get her to the plane that ultimately took her to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize detailed how the operation unfolded.
Bryan Stern led the mission that allowed the opponent to arrive in Oslo after twelve hours in the dark in a boat shaken by a strong tide
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