{"id":481317,"date":"2026-02-21T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:44:10","slug":"brazils-lula-says-maduro-should-face-trial-in-venezuela-not-us-nicolas-maduro-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481317\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Lula says Maduro should face trial in Venezuela, not US | Nicolas Maduro News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil\u2019s President Lula says fate of Venezuelan president should be determined by the \u2018people of Venezuela\u2019 and \u2018not by foreign interference\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro<\/a> should face trial, but that it should take place in a Venezuelan court, rather than in the United States, where he is currently being held after his abduction by the US military.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that if Maduro has to be trialled, he has to be trialled in his country, not trialled abroad,\u201d Lula said in an interview, emphasising that \u201cwhat matters now is to re-establish democracy in Venezuela\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be solved by the people of Venezuela, and not by foreign interference,\u201d said Lula, citing a history of US-backed dictatorships<\/a> in Latin America, including Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot accept that a head of state of one country could invade another country and capture the president,\u201d the Brazilian leader added.<\/p>\n

Lula\u2019s comments come as Venezuela\u2019s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, has been working to release hundreds<\/a> of politicians, activists and lawyers jailed during Maduro\u2019s residency, which began in 2013.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian has openly criticised the abduction of \u2060Maduro<\/a> and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a military operation ordered by US President Donald Trump on January 3.<\/p>\n

Maduro was flown to New York after his abduction in a bloody night raid on Caracas. He has since been accused by US authorities of planning<\/a> to transport drugs to the US alongside other charges.<\/p>\n

The US government\u2019s own data shows that Venezuela is not among the world\u2019s major drug producers; however, Trump administration officials have accused Maduro and others of working with the region\u2019s largest drug trafficking groups, including in Colombia and Mexico.<\/p>\n

While the Trump administration has claimed that its military buildup near Venezuela and maritime blockade of the country were focused on combating drug trafficking, Trump has laid claim to Venezuelan oil<\/a> reserves since removing Maduro.<\/p>\n

Trump has also invited US oil companies to exploit Venezuela\u2019s oil<\/a>\u00a0and said he wants proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan oil \u201cto benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s President Lula says fate of Venezuelan president should be determined by the \u2018people of Venezuela\u2019 and \u2018not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,941,12,3140,3,18231,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24,18232],"class_list":{"0":"post-481317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-latin-america","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nicolas-maduro","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-canada","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}