María Corina Machado RESCUED

Inside Operation: GOLDEN DYNAMITE and the Mission That Extracted Venezuelan President and Opposition Leader

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Olivia Smith
December 20, 2025

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

The past week has been anything but quiet at Grey Bull Rescue.

Grey Bull just completed Operation: GOLDEN DYNAMITE, the daring extraction of Venezuelan President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, who was being hunted by the cartels and the Maduro regime. This dangerous operation was highly sensitive with complex ground, maritime, and air components. María woke up in Venezuela on Tuesday and went to sleep in Oslo, Norway on Wednesday with her Nobel Prize in hand and united with her children after not seeing them for nearly two years.

Friday night, on Dec. 5th, we got the call. A small elite team of Grey Bull Rescue operators deployed backed by our team at HQ in Tampa. We energized our networks in the region and set conditions to operate. We initiated the extraction on Tuesday. 14 hours later, she was wheels up and landed in Norway on Wednesday. She had been trying to get out for months… Our team was able to do that in just FOUR days. SPEED OF NEED !!!

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This mission was hard, complicated, and dangerous to say the least. For months, many tried to rescue her from where she was hiding — deep behind enemy lines - where she was being actively hunted. For perspective, this mission was the highest profile extraction of a world leader since the Shah of Iran in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. Many people ask how? Expertise, passion, bravery, focus, discipline, tactical proficiency, technical expertise, and of course…..funding.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of hostile forces were aggressively hunting and searching for her including the Venezuelan, Cuban, Russian, and Iranian intelligence services — plus Hezbollah, the narco cartels, and the other “eyes on the street”. Not to mention the escalating U.S. military activity in the region where bad things happen at sea, in these exact waters.

The team led by Grey Bull Rescue prevailed against all odds. But how? We used tactics and techniques that are honed, razor sharp, from 800 rescue missions, hundreds of years of special operations and intelligence community expertise organic to our team, and a deep understanding of enemy intelligence and counterintelligence methodologies.

We may have been called last, but we succeeded first, and now MarÍa is safe as the enemy are scratching their heads.

This operation marked Grey Bull Rescue team’s 800th mission. GOLDEN DYNAMITE gained us much notoriety and we’ve welcomed many new supporters and subscribers in the days since. Thank you for standing and supporting us.

WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS

Grey Bull Rescue is entirely donor-funded. We do not receive any government funding to conduct our missions.

That independence is what allows us to move quickly, operate globally, and make decisions based on urgency—not bureaucracy. Every mission is made possible by individuals who believe that saving American and Allied lives should never be delayed by paperwork or red tape.

Support doesn’t go to overhead. It goes to real operations. Real action. With real impact.

DON’T BE A SPECTATOR.

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For Those New Here…

If you’re new to Grey Bull Rescue, welcome.

Grey Bull Rescue is a veteran-led, donor-funded nonprofit that conducts life-saving operations in the world’s most dangerous environments. We specialize in extraction, medical response, and crisis operations where traditional systems are delayed, constrained, or unavailable.

Our teams are made up of former special operations, intelligence, medical, and emergency professionals. We don’t wait for permission when lives are on the line—we prepare, deploy, and execute with precision.

This work isn’t theoretical. It’s operational. And it’s been that way for 800 missions and counting.

BRYAN STERN RECENTLY COMMENTED:

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We always say “Don’t be a spectator.” This week, Nicolas Maduro, is himself, “a spectator” to Maria, this mission, and Grey Bull Rescue. Ironically, Maduro joins a group of “bad guy” so-called leaders that share the frustration of knowing Grey Bull Rescue on a personal level, including: Vladimir Putin in Russia, Abu Nasrallah from Hizbollah, Jimmy “BBQ” Cherizier in Haiti, the RSF in Sudan, and many others — all of whom our team has operated against.

Bad guys of the world be warned… we will never leave our people behind. You dont scare us. We will come for them….ALWAYS.

Maybe Maduro will flee Venezuela and start a self-help group therapy club with those that seek to hurt, harm, or kill our people and allies like Maria.

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