Captured Venezuelan leader Maduro in New York
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Nicolas Maduro has arrived at a detention centre in Brooklyn, New York where he will be held ahead of an expected first court appearance on Monday. Live TV showed Mr Maduro being led away in a hooded jacket and handcuffs by US agents after the plane transporting the captured Venezuelan president and his wife arrived at an air base north of the city. In 2020, Mr Maduro was charged in absentia over alleged drug and weapons offences. He has always maintained that the accusations are a pretext for regime change and denied links to drug trafficking.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of the 4th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.8 | Venezuela's president, Nicholas Maduro, has arrived in New York where he's facing |
| 0:22.4 | drug charges after being captured by U.S. troops. President Trump has said his administration |
| 0:28.3 | intends to run Venezuela until a transition can be achieved. Also in this podcast, how does it all feel inside Venezuela? |
| 0:40.9 | There's always this year after things like this happened that we will start seeing anarchy taking place. |
| 0:48.5 | There are lots of armed people that have been given weapons. |
| 0:52.8 | We'll hear from a woman in the capital, Caracas. |
| 1:00.4 | The Venezuelan leader, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife are now in the US after their capture |
| 1:05.8 | by American special forces in Caracas. Several dozen people people who appeared to be law enforcement officers |
| 1:12.1 | led a figure dressed in grey from a plane across the tarmac of New York's Stewart Air National |
| 1:18.2 | Guard Base. Earlier, Donald Trump had posted a picture which showed Nicholas Maduro after being |
| 1:23.6 | captured by the US. He was wearing a grey track suit, his hands tied, his eyes blindfolded. |
| 1:29.7 | Among the journalists watching his arrival in New York was our correspondent, Ned Ataufeek. |
| 1:34.9 | Despite the extraordinary circumstances of all of this, he will be treated just as any other |
| 1:41.1 | criminal defendant of high profile has been treated in New York. |
| 1:45.4 | He will be taken by law enforcement to be processed and booked, to be fingerprinted, to have his mugshot taken, |
| 1:54.0 | to finally then go to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. |
| 2:01.8 | There, he and his wife are expected to be put into a special part of the jail away from the regular population. |
| 2:09.9 | And we expect on Monday that he will then face those charges against him to have them read out in court, |
| 2:17.4 | 25-page indictment that accuses him of narco-trafficking and importation of cocaine. |
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