re: Why were the Maduros taken to NYC rather than GITMO or Ft Bragg?
Because on March 26, 2020, Maduro was indicted by the Department of Justice in the Southern District of New York. A superseding indictment was unsealed on January 3, 2026 (see below).
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro was indicted in the Southern District of New York on narco-terrorism charges. Bondi added Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
Maduro, his wife and four others are named as defendants in the indictment, including Maduro’s son, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro; Venezuela’s interior minister, Diosdado Cabello; its former interior minister, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín; and a leader of the gang Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores.
In a 2020 indictment against Maduro, federal prosecutors alleged that he and other top Venezuelan officials collaborated with the Colombian guerrilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, to traffic cocaine [thousands of tons] and weapons to the United States.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nicolas-maduro-new-york-venezuela-president-captured/
thank you for the clarification re Maduro being in NYC
I pray the prosecution will be successful