Nicolas Maduro and his wife will be transferred to New York after being captured in Venezuela
President Donald Trump revealed more details about the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Venezuela
President Donald Trump revealed, on the morning of Saturday, January 3, more details of the operation carried out in Venezuela to capture Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were captured at a residence in the South American country.
During An interview with Fox News, the US president elaborated on the details of the arrest of the Venezuelan leader and his partner. He asserted that both Maduro and his wife were being held at that time on the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima and were already en route to New York to be prosecuted for drug trafficking. "They're on their way to New York. They've been indicated in New York. They were taken first to a ship, the Iwo Jima, and they'll continue on to New York. They were taken by helicopter. A nice flight, I'm sure they loved it," Donald Trump stated in an interview with Fox News. Although the president did not want to go into detail about the operation carried out by the special forces, he did emphasize that it was a “meticulous” capture operation, in which they “practiced everything” and even “built a house just like the one they went to,” with the same armor plating and reinforced security measures as the location, hallways, or staircases they had to use. transit.
According to local media, the operation was carried out by a unit of the elite Delta Force, who removed Maduro and Flores from their bed and took them to a helicopter.
They will be tried in a New York court
US Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed this Saturday that Nicolas Maduro and his wife will be tried in a federal court in New York and reiterated the formal indictment filed against the Venezuelan president in 2020 on four charges, including conspiracy to commit narcoterrorism.
“Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been formally indicted in the Southern District of New York,” Bondi wrote in a message on the social network
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