Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, touched down in New York City Saturday night after being captured by US forces in a daring overnight operation.
The pair — who landed at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Upstate Newburgh around 5 p.m. — arrived via helicopter at a Manhattan heliport just before 7 p.m. and were hauled away in a heavily armed tactical vehicle called a “Bearcat” surrounded by a small motorcade.
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Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, will first be transported to the Drug Enforcement Administration Headquarters in Chelsea, where they will be processed before returning to the West 30th Street Heliport and choppered to Brooklyn, sources told The Post.
From there, a motorcade will take them to the Metropolitan Detention Center, as they are set to face narco-terrorism charges in the Southern District of New York, sources said.
The tyrant is expected in the federal court as early as Monday.
The Venezuelan leader and his wife were captured by US forces during a high-stakes military operation Saturday morning in Caracas, leaving the South American country in a constitutional crisis.
Maduro and Flores were charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy and weapons offenses.
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Maduro’s son, Nicholas Ernesto Maduro Guerra, who’s known as “The Prince,” was also charged alongside his parents for the illegal trafficking of thousands of tons of cocaine.
Trump said the couple will face the “full wrath of American justice.”
The US will run the embattled nation until a transition government is in place, “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” he added.
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