Overview
- In a new interview, Nicolás Maduro Guerra says his father shares a New York jail cell with 18 other inmates.
- He also claims the cell briefly held rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine after parole violations, a detail not independently confirmed.
- U.S. prosecutors charge Nicolás Maduro with "drug terrorism," alleging he aided cocaine shipments to the United States, which the family calls a political case.
- After U.S. troops arrested Maduro and his wife in Caracas on January 3rd and flew them to New York, former vice president Delcy Rodríguez began handling daily government business in Caracas.
- Maduro's son rejects assertions that Washington controls Venezuela and says measures such as an amnesty law and opening the oil sector are domestic initiatives.