NEW YORK, Sept 11 — The wife of Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, both of whom face drug trafficking charges in the United States, has requested to be released from New York detention and placed under house arrest, citing heart problems. Before her capture by US forces in January, Cilia Fl»»»

Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were seized by the US during a raid in Caracas and have been detained since Jan 3. (EPA Images pic) NEW YORK: The wife of Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, both of whom face drug trafficking charges in the US, has requeste»»»

NEW YORK — Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her trial while on home confinement” while dealing with a»»»

CARACAS: Venezuela’s opposition on Friday called for presidential elections, noting that the 90-day legal period for organising a vote on replacing ousted leader Nicolas Maduro had elapsed. In a statement, the Vente party of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said that with Maduro absent from t»»»

The United States military on Friday struck another boat it suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing two people, the US Southern Command said. The attack represents the first known strike by the administration since US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on January »»»

Associated PressPublished: 7:31am, 24 Jan 2026Updated: 7:38am, 24 Jan 2026The US military said on Friday that it had carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Ma»»»

NEW YORK – Ms Susannah Ray, a teacher at a New York City high school, was supposed to be in class on Jan 5 morning, welcoming her photography students back on the first day of the winter quarter. Her daughter, Bettina, 14, should have been at her own high school to start the second semester of her »»»

Share: The Swiss government has frozen any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolas Maduro and people close to the Venezuelan president. The order is to ensure that potentially illegally acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland, the government said in a statement on Monday. The freeze »»»

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s embattled president, is facing a far-reaching criminal case in Manhattan after being captured in a U.S. military raid, reviving and expanding an indictment that federal prosecutors have pursued for years. An indictment unsealed Saturday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for »»»

A total of 32 Cuban nationals were killed during the US attack on Caracas that culminated in the capture of Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro, the government in Havana said Sunday. "As a result of the criminal attack carried out by the government of the United States" against Venezuela, "32 Cuba»»»

The Cuban government said on Sunday that 32 of its citizens were killed during the US raid on Venezuela to extract President Nicolas Maduro for prosecution in the United States. Havana said there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangement»»»