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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife will make their first court

appearance in New York tomorrow.

Impairs Carrie Johnson reports they face multiple felony charges.

The grand jury indictment against Maduro accuses him of narco-trafficking, conspiracy to import cocaine into the U.S.,

and possession of machine guns and other destructive devices.

Prosecutors initially secured an indictment of Maduro back in 2020, but they added new charges and new defendants, including Maduro's wife.

The Trump administration has not produced a memo or other

details about the legal rationale for their capture, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio casts it as a

law enforcement operation to arrest people facing American criminal charges. Rubio says military

personnel helped protect the federal agents who executed the arrest, and he says the

operation was too uncertain to notify Congress in advance.

Carrie Johnson and PR News, Washington.

Meanwhile, Venezuela's interim president is quickly consolidating her power.

Reporter John Otis has more.

Delcy Rodriguez, who had been Maduro's vice president, was sworn in to replace him Saturday.

Since then, Rodriguez has secured backing from key members of Maduro's authoritarian regime,

which remains largely in place.

Among them is Defense Minister Vladimir Pad Padino Lopez, who in this speech

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