Overview
- In a Wednesday interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel, Nicolás Maduro Guerra said the movement should apologize for errors and “excesses.”
- He cited police conduct and a justice system that did not always ensure fair trials or the right to a defense as examples of those excesses.
- Maduro Guerra, a 35-year-old deputy in Venezuela’s National Assembly, offered a rare public self-critique from within the ruling camp.
- He said his father, detained in New York, calls the family daily around 7 p.m., reads the Bible, and studies some English while awaiting trial.
- He voiced concern about his father’s health due to a prison diet heavy in carbohydrates, processed foods, and salt, as the former president—captured on January 3—has pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcoterrorism and cocaine-importation charges.