The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurowas transferred this Saturday to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he will remain held, after arriving in Manhattan by helicopter, according to local media.
According to reports from The New York Times and the chain cnnthe helicopter took off from a heliport in Manhattan bound for the detention center, after Maduro was processed in a federal facility linked to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
A caravan of Police vehicles escorted his transfer from the heliport to the penitentiary centerthe agency noted EFE.
The official rapid response account of the White House released a video this Saturday showing the arrest and transfer of the Venezuelan president.
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The message that accompanies the video states: “Arrested and escorted.”
In the images, Maduro says “Good night, happy new year.”
According to reports, the president arrived in Manhattan in a helicopter that landed in an area near the Hudson River, at 31st Street, on the west side of the island, after having previously transferred him on a military plane to an airport in upstate New York and after the US captured him in Caracas.
Trump: “We are going to control Venezuela until there is a safe and orderly transition”
Charges for “narcoterrorism and conspiracy”
Maduro faces charges of narcoterrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States and crimes related to automatic weapons, according to a substitute indictment made public this Saturday by the Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of New York, in a case formally initiated in 2020.
However, according to several international analysts and due to the historical US military interventions in third countries, it could be another US justification for attacking a country like Venezuela due to its geostrategic and economic importance. Trump himself has said that he will recover Venezuela’s oil.
“We’ve seen this movie before. Wars for a change of regime or for oil that are sold as forcebut they turn into chaos, and American families pay the price. “The American people do not want this and are tired of being lied to,” he said. Kamala Harris.
The Boeing 757 military plane that transported Maduro landed this Saturday afternoon at Stewart Air National Guard Base, in upstate New York.
Agents from different federal agencies were waiting for him there, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the DEA.
