So it is a frigid Sunday afternoon, and I'm standing in front of the Metropolitan

Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which improbably is where Venezuelan President

Nicholas Maduro and his wife woke up this morning

after their stunning capture by American troops in Caracas over the weekend.

And it's this truly surreal scene because after 12 years as the all-powerful dictator of a major Latin American

country, a country with something like 30 million citizens, Maduro has ended up in this jail

next to the highway, a few minutes from my apartment, and a couple blocks from

the nearest Costco. It's just such a juxtaposition from what he was just a few days ago to what he is now.

And as best we can tell, Maduro is going to remain in this detention center, at least until he is arraigned,

we think as early as Monday morning in Manhattan.

And it's at that point that the U.S. government

is going to present its charges against him.

And Maduro's future

will suddenly be in the hands

of an American judge

and an American jury.

The and an American jury. From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barro.

This is the Daily.

Today, the legal case against Nicholas Maduro

and whether the lawfulness of the extraordinary operation to capture him

could undermine that case.

I spoke with my colleague, Charlie Savage,

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