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Maduro and his wife have been transferred from a detention centre in Brooklyn to a court in Manhattan, where a full list of charges against them will be read later today.

Here are some of the latest images:

An armoured vehicle transports the pair from a Brooklyn detention centre as part of a convoy
They are transported to a helicopter and flown to Manhattan
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, arrive at a heliport in Manhattan
Law enforcement officials secure the area around the federal courthouse after Maduro and his wife arrive

Maduro arrives at New York court

Maduro and his wife have arrived at a Manhattan court building, where the full list of charges against him will be read later today.

An aerial view shows a vehicle carrying captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arriving at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Manhattan United States Courthouse

Maduro transferred in New York ahead of court appearance

Maduro in the process of being transferred, there are two officials on his right and left and the background is blurred


Maduro and woman taken off helicopter in Manhattan

Maduro has now stepped off the helicopter in Manhattan, alongside a woman who appears to be his wife.

They are being escorted by several Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents.

They are in what look like prison outfits and Maduro seems to be limping slightly.

Crowds gather outside New York court ahead of Maduro appearance

I’m outside New York federal court, where Maduro and his wife are expected to appear in a courtroom in just a few hours.

Like it was on days when other high-profile defendants have come before the court in the past, there is a line around the block of reporters and members of the public queuing to get access to the room where Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, will appear for the first time since their seizure this weekend.

Maduro and his wife will stand before 92-year-old Judge Alvin Hellerstein and be formally charged on drugs and weapon counts.

They are expected to enter their pleas during the arraignment, which are typically brief hearings.

Usual routine resumes in Caracas, but tension remains

The skyline of Caracas after the U.S. launched a strike on Venezuela, capturing its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores

Monday morning. The usual routine begins. The streets and avenues of Caracas gradually regain their normal traffic after it was disrupted and greatly reduced over the weekend following the events that ended with the seizure of Nicolás Maduro.

It’s a working day, and businesses have also started to open. The metro and gas stations are operating and there is no significant security presence on the streets.

However, around the parliament, where a special session is taking place today for Delcy Rodríguez to be sworn in as interim president of Venezuela, some streets are closed.

A street closed off by a fence outside the parliament building

Here, there is a deployment of officials, but not of the magnitude seen, for example, during Maduro’s swearing-in on 10 January, 2025.

A 49-year-old woman near the palace tells me that “food prices are extremely high, it’s terrifying”.

While she speaks to us, a group of national guard officers prepare for security duty.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS

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