{"id":494365,"date":"2026-01-05T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:38:14","slug":"venezuelan-dictator-nicolas-maduro-nyc-court-appearance-live-updates-reactions-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494365\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro NYC court appearance: Live updates, reactions, photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores are slated to make their first appearance in a US federal court Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fallen leader, 66, and his 69-year-old wife were charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy<\/a>, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices against the United States in the Southern District of New York on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The couple was indicted after they were captured at their heavily fortified compound in Caracas<\/a> by US forces during a daring mission dubbed \u201cOperation Absolute Resolve\u201d after President Trump gave the final directive for the US to attack the South American nation earlier Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has repeatedly called Maduro\u2019s regime \u201cillegitimate\u201d and said he has remained in power due to rigged elections, including in 2024. Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is next in line for the presidency, according to its constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maduro and Flores are in separate, solitary cells inside Brooklyn\u2019s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center<\/a> \u2014 where heavily armed law enforcement members are on patrol outside. The lockup has also housed Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman, disgraced music mogul Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs and accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maduro and Flores are set to appear before US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores are slated to make their first appearance in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,405,403,5226,5225,92550,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,221118,1154,2969,32322],"class_list":{"0":"post-494365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-nicolas-maduro","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115843242559748115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}