Overview
- Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized in a U.S. special forces raid in Caracas and flown to New York, where they are held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
- Maduro faces longstanding Southern District of New York charges, including narco-terrorism conspiracy and cocaine importation.
- He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Manhattan federal court before Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
- On Fox & Friends, Sen. John Fetterman praised the operation as appropriate and surgical, stressing that Maduro was taken into custody to stand trial rather than killed or disappeared.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the action as unauthorized military force and called for an immediate congressional briefing, as other Democrats raised legal concerns and Republicans welcomed the capture.