{"id":25973,"date":"2026-01-04T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=25973"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:59:24","slug":"video-nicolas-maduro-in-new-york-timeline-of-events-after-his-reported-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/video-nicolas-maduro-in-new-york-timeline-of-events-after-his-reported-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO Nicol\u00e1s Maduro In New York: Timeline of Events After His Reported Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">In the early hours of yesterday morning, US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela\u2019s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores had been \u201ccaptured and flown out of the country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"640\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 360 \/ 640;\" width=\"360\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQMkDa12YqcA5p-66XahqE8cPlND1oOvo6uoyPFffxlUF61-f3-vaQqjRW8DKew5AG5vbgfeJctSIQAVA3OdTn3Bs315loMrzD3Sna6l9Q-1-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This breaking development has generated global attention, and here\u2019s a clear timeline of what has happened since the announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Maduro and Cilia Flores Taken During Overnight Operation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Maduro and Cilia Flores were dragged from their bedroom during the middle of the night, according to two sources familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The US operation was carried out as they were sleeping, the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">First Image Released After the Capture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Several hours later, Trump published a photograph of Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima warship wearing a gray Nike sweatsuit and clutching a water bottle. He was also wearing a black eye mask and headphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Arrival in New York Under Heavy Security<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Maduro was next seen deboarding a plane at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York, where he was escorted by more than a dozen federal agents wearing black, according to footage from CNN affiliate WCBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Transfer to Federal Detention in Brooklyn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He was then transported to Manhattan by helicopter, and onwards to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, also by helicopter. He is now being held there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">White House Releases Perp Walk Footage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Shortly after this, the White House\u2019s official rapid response account posted video of what appeared to be Maduro participating in a perp walk. In the video, Maduro is wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and trousers, wishing those in the room a \u201cgood night\u201d and a \u201cHappy New Year\u201d in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of yesterday morning, US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela\u2019s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores had been \u201ccaptured and flown out of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,5,458,1138],"tags":[1004,3644,3645,3642,3650,2220,3594,3640,2091,3646,3641,274,2161,3648,3647],"class_list":["post-25973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-international","category-legal","category-politics","tag-breaking-news","tag-diplomatic-visit","tag-global-politics","tag-here-you-go-the-same-wordpress-friendly-tags","tag-international-headlines","tag-international-relations","tag-latin-america-news","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-nyc-news","tag-political-news","tag-united-nations","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuelan-politics","tag-world-leaders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2253971507.avif","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25982,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions\/25982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}