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The Keys to Understanding One of the Most Critical Weeks for Venezuela — and Why some Citizens Have Mixed Emotions

Maduro and his wife face drug and weapons charges in New York while Venezuela's acting president is sworn in amid ongoing oil negotiations and political uncertainty.

  • Earlier this week, U.S. operatives detained Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas; they now face drug and weapons charges in a New York jail.
  • Delcy Rodríguez, acting president , was sworn in Monday, maintaining the Chavismo movement established under Hugo Chávez as key deputies Cabello and Padrino remain in power.
  • The US detained Maduro and his wife, while authorities released several inmates, including four Spanish nationals and opposition lawmakers, this week.
  • PDVSA said it is negotiating oil sales with the United States, President Donald Trump met oil CEOs on Friday, and ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods called the deal `uninvestible`.
  • Nearly 8 million Venezuelans have fled the country, and diaspora celebrations in Miami, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Bogotá reflect mixed relief and uncertainty about the future.
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Analysis by Flora Charner, CNN. People around the world—especially Venezuelans—are still processing the events that unfolded in Caracas a week ago, when Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were awakened at their residence early Saturday morning by U.S. Delta Force operatives and taken into custody. The ousted Venezuelan leader and the former first lady are now in a New York jail, facing drug and weapons charges, to which they pleaded not gu…

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Permanent mobilizations across the country confirm revolutionary loyalty to the hijacking of the executive and the military aggression carried out by the US.

This week in the Puncheon corner on the Talk of the Week program with Moshe Menas and Yossi Haim Maimon: The members of the committee in Bnei Brak met to discuss the names of the new streets in Bnei Brak, I don't really understand why names are needed? You can't write 'everything is clogged' and that's it..? By the way, only the names are new. The streets are still the same. I understand Seibert, it's hard to see the congestion when you're out o…

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In a short sentence from a detention centre in Brooklyn, New York, the former fallen Venezuelan president wanted to send a signal to his country. For the first time since his spectacular capture by the United States on January 3, Nicolas Maduro, now imprisoned in the United States with his wife Cilia Flores, addressed Venezuelans indirectly, through his son, at a meeting of the Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela in Caracas.

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CARACAS, January 10.— The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, called to maintain the mobilization to achieve the liberation of the Head of State, Nicolás Maduro, kidnapped a week ago by the U.S. along with his partner, Cilia Flores, and for the advance of "social happiness." The exhortation was formulated during the opening on Friday of a Center of Integral Care for Women and Humanized Birth in the town of La Candelaria, which is …

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asiaplustj.info broke the news in on Saturday, January 10, 2026.
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