Maduro landed Saturday evening at a small airport in New York following the middle-of-the-night operation that extracted him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in a military base in Venezuela's capital city of Caracas, Euronews reports.
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has arrived in the United States and was brought to the Metropolitan Detention Centre in New York, where he now awaits trial on charges of narco-terrorism.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken from their home in Venezuela's capital city Caracas in a dramatic US military operation that Maduro's government called “imperialist.”
Following the operation dubbed "Absolute Resolve", US President Donald Trump said his country will "run" Venezuela until a "safe" transition and take control of its vast oil reserves.
It capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on Maduro and months of secret planning, resulting in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Venezuela's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez demanded that the United States free Maduro and called him the country’s rightful leader.
Some Venezuelan civilians and members of the military were killed, said Rodríguez, but didn’t give a number. Trump said some US forces were injured, but none were killed.
