{"id":393590,"date":"2026-01-05T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:49:10","slug":"maduro-and-wife-arrive-at-new-york-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393590\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro and wife arrive at New York court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York: The United Nations said on Monday it was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d that the US had not respected the rule of international law and the precedent it may set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply concerned about the possible intensification of instability in the country, the potential impact on the region, and the precedent it may set for how relations between and among states are conducted,\u201d Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was read at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday (Tuesday AEDT).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armed officers escorted Maduro to court.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/87a51a2136360267f11e8da98f415b048e72c4804fa3aac34ab959dfb468352b.png\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Armed officers escorted Maduro to court.Credit:    <\/p>\n<p>It came as deposed Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cecilia Flores, arrived at a New York courthouse where they are set to be indicted.<\/p>\n<p>Handcuffed and surrounded by heavily armed federal agents and NYPD police officers, they were taken from their prison cells at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>They were flown about 9km by helicopter to a helipad in Wall Street, and then transported in an armoured truck the short distance to the court precinct in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maduro arrives at the Wall Street heliport ahead of his appearance in federal court in New York.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/64d10e95f87ef152b76c5ffdeeda7809bc88a7d2.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maduro arrives at the Wall Street heliport ahead of his appearance in federal court in New York.Credit: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maduro arrives at the heliport ahead of his transfer by vehicle to the courthouse.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/598a226ca239061ad2c7f775f813fabb2f1c8f7b.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maduro arrives at the heliport ahead of his transfer by vehicle to the courthouse.Credit: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>Scores of heavily armed agents and NYPD police officers guarded them as the high-security transfer took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York: The United Nations said on Monday it was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d that the US had not respected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-393590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}