Overview
- Nicolás Maduro remains detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as a narcotrafficking prosecution proceeds in New York federal court following his initial hearing earlier this week.
- A video shared Saturday by a PSUV figure and played at a party event featured Nicolás Maduro Guerra quoting his father as saying he is well and remains strong, according to reports relayed by lawyers.
- Maduro’s son urged supporters to place confidence in acting leader Delcy Rodríguez as well as Jorge Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello to keep the movement united.
- Pro-regime militants have voiced accusations of internal betrayal and questioned apparent failures in Venezuela’s air-defense and rocket systems during the operation that led to the capture.
- Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized in Caracas in the early hours of Saturday, January 3, and he was transferred to U.S. custody in New York later that day.