enezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were captured by US forces from Fuerte Tiuna in Caracas on January 3, 2026, and were transported to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Maduro faces a four-count indictment on the charge of leading a 25-year narco-terrorism conspiracy. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has implicitly warned Colombian President Gustavo Petro when he told reporters on Sunday: “Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he’s not going to be doing it very long. Let me tell you”.