Overview
- Nicolás Maduro is in pretrial custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on U.S. charges that include narcoterrorism and drug trafficking.
- His wife, Cilia Flores, is also being held at the same jail pending her first appearance before a judge.
- According to former Bureau of Prisons officials, he is expected to begin in a special housing unit in isolation before moving to a unit for high‑profile detainees.
- The MDC has been denounced as unsafe and unsanitary, with analysts cautioning that conditions will be austere for the couple.
- The jail has housed prominent defendants including Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sam Bankman‑Fried, and Sean “Diddy” Combs, as Venezuelan crowds outside cheered the arrest.