An X user highlighted an operational security lapse in two photographs of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro over the past hour, noting people around him were blurred in the first image but visible in the second where the photographer failed to obscure them, according to @talhagin in a post shared during the 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. UTC window on January 4, 2026. Separately, an X post shared in the same one-hour window featured video of a house in Caracas' La Boyera urbanization during an early morning attack on antennas in El Volcán on January 3, 2026, identified as one of the first targets likely aimed at cutting the regime's telecommunications, per @franciscoamarin. These disclosures follow the U.S. military extraction of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores to the New York DEA office earlier on January 4, praised for precision by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, as reported in prior coverage before 7:45 a.m. UTC.
