{"id":333828,"date":"2026-08-31T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333828\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:14:21","slug":"slimmed-down-nicolas-maduro-flashes-smile-peace-sign-in-new-jail-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333828\/","title":{"rendered":"Slimmed-down Nicolas Maduro flashes smile, peace sign in new jail pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/22\/us-news\/nicolas-maduro-toppled-venezuelan-dictator-has-ny-trial-date-set\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ousted Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro<\/a> has slimmed down during his time behind bars, new photos from his New York City jail show \u2014 as the socialist also flashed a smile and peace sign.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, 63, is beaming in a gray track suit and pair of white sneakers in the photographs from Brooklyn\u2019s Metropolitan Detention Center, which were dated June 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/03\/world-news\/how-us-forces-captured-venezuelas-maduro-in-extraordinary-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">US Special Forces captured the socialist and his wife Cilia Flores<\/a> at their heavily guarded home in Caracas during a \u200bJanuary 3 nighttime raid ordered by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro flashes the peace sign in a photo behind bars. The photo is dated from June 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro flashes the peace sign while wearing a tracksuit and sneakers behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>They were brought to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/03\/us-news\/ousted-venezuelan-dictator-nicolas-maduro-arrives-in-nyc-by-helicopter-hours-after-capture-by-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>, where they were indicted on charges of using \u200btheir leadership positions to work with drug cartels to ship thousands of tons of cocaine into the US between 1999 and 2025.<br \/>They have both pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, prosecutors with the Manhattan US Attorney\u2019s Office and Maduro\u2019s defense lawyers confirmed his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/22\/world-news\/venezuelas-maduro-due-back-in-us-court-amid-high-profile-drug-trafficking-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trial<\/a> will start in \u200bJune 2027.<\/p>\n<p>US Federal Agents bring ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro into lower Manhattan by helicopter in January 2026. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>Cilia Flores, Nicolas Maduro\u2019s wife, is led in custody by a DEA agent after arriving at a heliport in New York City on Sunday, January 4, 2026. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela has been run since Maduro\u2019s capture by his former Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, \u200bwho has established closer ties with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ousted Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro has slimmed down during his time behind bars, new photos from his New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[303,42436,9,11,10,15862,4719,42364,58,7318],"class_list":["post-333828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime","tag-maduro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-prisons","tag-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro","tag-us-news","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}