{"id":88445,"date":"2026-01-04T00:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88445\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:19:13","slug":"nicolas-maduro-wife-arrive-in-new-york-after-being-captured-by-us-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88445\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, wife arrive in New York after being captured by US forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were escorted off a Department of Justice (DOJ) plane by federal agents<\/a> in upstate New York on Saturday afternoon, after being captured by U.S. forces at their South American compound earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

The couple is expected to be transported to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters before they are booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn<\/a>, a source told Fox News.<\/p>\n

Maduro is 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 U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The indictment also lists his wife and son as defendants.<\/p>\n

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A DOJ plane containing captured Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife lands at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., on Saturday.\u00a0 (WNYW)<\/p>\n

HOUSE GOP CRITICS BREAK WITH TRUMP OVER VENEZUELA OPERATION THAT CAPTURED MADURO<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> shared a photo of Maduro after his capture aboard the USS Iwo Jima, though he and his wife were not clearly seen disembarking the plane in New York, due to the darkness.<\/p>\n

“Operation Absolute Resolve” follows a series of U.S. military strikes on suspected drug vessels allegedly tied to the Venezuelan regime<\/a> in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n

The Venezuelan government said in a statement the attack was carried out to seize the country’s oil and minerals, and was an “attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a \u2018regime change<\/a>,\u2019 in alliance with the fascist oligarchy.”<\/p>\n

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Venezuela’s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is led by officials while in custody from a DOJ airplane Saturday in upstate New York. (ABC Affiliate WABC via Reuters)<\/p>\n

RUBIO TO CUBA: ‘I’D BE CONCERNED’ AFTER US MILITARY ARRESTS VENEZUELAN LEADER MADURO<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump warned the U.S. is prepared to stage a “second and much larger attack,” confirming U.S. forces<\/a> remain in position.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re there now, and we\u2019re going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

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Police patrol the West Side Heliport in New York City, Saturday, ahead of the expected arrival of ousted Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Maduro and his wife arrived in the U.S. after his capture by U.S. forces in Caracas. (\u00a0Angela Weiss\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The U.S. will remain in control of Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The operation comes nearly 40 years after the U.S. military last removed a leader in Latin America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Panama dictator Manuel Noriega was successfully ousted in 1989, though it spurred long-term challenges in stabilizing governance.<\/p>\n

While Venezuelan celebrations began in other countries, Fox News reported those inside the country were stockpiling food amid fears of instability.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital journalist who covers breaking news, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n

She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1026,153,1082,9,11,10,618,42403],"class_list":["post-88445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice-department","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us","tag-venezuelan-political-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88445","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=88445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}