MLB team ignores status of players in Venezuela after US military attacks
US Army carries out attacks in Venezuela
The US military carried out attacks in Venezuela early Saturday, US officials confirmed to News. Multiple explosions could be seen in the capital of Caracas and nearby areas. (CREDIT: The News)
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The Milwaukee Brewers say they do not know the status of several players in Venezuela after the US army carried out attacks in the country and detained President Nicolás Maduro.
Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold revealed that the team does not know the status of the players in a statement 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 else.”
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The Milwaukee Brewers celebrate a single by center fielder Jackson Chourio during the 10th inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at American Family Field in Milwaukee on July 9, 2025. (Patrick Gorski/Imagn Images)
The team’s players in Venezuela include star outfielder Jackson Chourio, infielder Andruw Monasterio and catcher Jeferson Quero, according to the outlet.
The recent attack by the US military comes after attacking alleged drug trafficking ships in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific.
Forces carried out a “large-scale attack” in Venezuela early Saturday and detained Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife, President Donald Trump confirmed.
The president wrote in Truth Social that the operation was successful and that Maduro and his wife were “captured and taken out of the country by plane.” Trump said the operation was carried out with the collaboration of US law enforcement.
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At least seven explosions could be heard in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, early Saturday, according to The News, and planes were seen flying low over Caracas around 2 a.m. local time. The helicopters flying over Caracas were part of the US Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as “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 damaged by the attack.
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Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio before the fifth inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Aug. 31, 2025, at Rogers Center in Toronto. (Mathew Tsang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
The statement also accused the United States of committing a “very serious military aggression” against Venezuela and carrying out an “imperialist aggression.”
“The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to forcibly break the political independence of the Nation,” the Government of Venezuela stated in a statement. “They will not achieve it. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate Government remain firm in the defense of sovereignty and the inalienable right to decide their own destiny.”
News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz and Lucas Y. Tomlinson contributed to this report.
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