By Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Photo: AFP / KENA BETANCUR
Days after being captured in a Caracas safe house, ousted Venezuelan President NicolΓ‘s Maduro finds himself in a far less hospitable environment: a Brooklyn jail where he likely will be confined to a cell 23 hours a day, conditions that Sean "Diddy" Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell had called inhumane.
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores face drug trafficking charges in the United States after being captured in a dramatic overnight raid.
They were transported to a US Navy ship, flown to the US and taken Saturday night to the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. Both the 63-year old Maduro and his 69-year old wife appeared in Manhattan federal court on Monday (lo
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