Overview
- U.S. forces carried out a Jan. 3 operation in Caracas that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were flown to New York.
- Maduro is confined at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a troubled facility with a history of violence, a weeklong 2019 power outage, and two inmate killings in 2024.
- Manhattan federal prosecutors have charged Maduro with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and related weapons offenses, with an expanded indictment adding his wife and his son, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra.
- The Bureau of Prisons says MDC conditions have improved, citing added staff, more than 700 maintenance fixes, population reductions, and efforts to curb contraband and internal violence.
- Supporters and opponents gathered outside the jail after his arrival, and he is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court as soon as Monday.