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Maduro sharing New York prison cell with 18 inmates, son says per German news mag., while Spanish newspaper claims he’s in solitary confinement

2026-05-15

Trump Bukele'd him. Trump did to Maduro what the deep state wanted to do to him!

[Yahoo-DPA] Former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who is jailed in the United States, has to share a prison cell with 18 other inmates, according to his son.

Nicolás Maduro Guerra, Maduro's only son, told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published on Wednesday that US rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine had also briefly been held in the shared cell after violating probation conditions.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were arrested by US forces in Caracas in early January and flown to New York. They face charges including narco-terrorism, linked to allegations that Maduro used his office to facilitate the smuggling of large quantities of cocaine into the US. Maduro has denied the allegations.

His 35-year-old son, known as "Nicolasito," also rejected the accusations, describing the case as politically motivated and denying that his family had any links to drugs or terrorism.

Maduro Guerra said the US military operation came as a surprise to his family and the Venezuelan government, despite growing tensions with President Donald Trump's administration ahead of the attack on January 3.

He said Venezuela had overestimated its own strength and had not done enough to protect his father.

Maduro's son also rejected Trump's claim that the US had effectively taken over government affairs in Venezuela after Maduro's capture.

Queerly enough, Breitbart reported in March that a Spanish newspaper reported Mr, Maduro was in solitary confinement. They can’t both be right:

Report: Jailed Dictator Nicolás Maduro Spends Nights in Brooklyn Prison Yelling ‘I Am the President!’

A report publishedby the Spanish newspaper ABC on Thursday claimed that Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro spends his nights in prison yelling "I am the president" and claiming that he was "kidnapped" by the U.S.

Maduro, long wanted by U.S. authorities on multiple narco-terrorism charges, led the Venezuelan socialist regime from March 2013 to January 3, 2026, the day the United States executed a law enforcement operation in Caracas to arrest him and his wife, Cilia Flores. The now-deposed dictator clung to power after the end of his first term in 2019 by holding sham presidential elections in 2018 and 2024.

Following their arrest in Caracas, the pair has remained detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn and are expected to appear before the court for a hearing on March 26. Maduro pleaded "not guilty" on January 5 and insists that he is the "president" of Venezuela, demanding that the Venezuelan state pay for his legal representation fees.

At press time, no official from the MDC has publicly disclosed information on the conditions of Maduro’s detainment at the Brooklyn prison. ABC, citing several unnamed sources with knowledge of the deposed dictator’s situation, claimed on Thursday that Maduro is presently detained at the MDC’s Special Housing Unit (SHU), a wing where, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported in January, inmates are kept in "solitary confinement under destructive conditions."

"Officially, it serves several purposes: disciplinary isolation, suicide prevention, and protection of high-profile or at-risk inmates," ABC’s report read. "In practice, it involves almost permanent confinement under an isolation regime."

ABC detailed that many "famous" inmates first pass through the SHU under suicide prevention protocols, where they stay between 72 hours and a week. The sources claimed to ABC that, in Maduro’s case, his isolation is due to "prolonged security reasons," as he is "probably the most high-profile inmate in the history of the facility" and, as such, the authorities "cannot afford an incident."

One of the sources, which ABC identified as the lawyer of a Venezuelan inmate in a nearby cell block, relayed to the newspaper on behalf of their client that Maduro spends entire nights yelling in Spanish from his cell, which ABC reported as "three meters long by two meters wide, with a metal bed, a toilet, a sink, and a narrow window that barely lets in any natural light."

According to the source, Maduro repeatedly yells that he was "kidnapped" and requests that messages are relayed to his family and other Venezuelan inmates in the prison. ABC detailed that the scene presents a "radical inversion" of Maduro’s public figure.

"I am the president of Venezuela! Tell my country that I have been kidnapped, that we are being mistreated here," Maduro has reportedly yelled from inside his prison cell.

"The man of mandatory television broadcasts, of the balconies of the Miraflores Palace, of mass rallies, reduced to a voice banging on a metal door in Brooklyn," ABC wrote. "The same man who until recently danced on television and defied Washington."

Maduro is presently being represented in the ongoing drug trafficking case against him and Cilia Flores by American lawyer Barry Pollack, who represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

... Australian journalist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks made the Big Time in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by then Bradley, since Chelsea Manning. After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and asked allied nations for assistance. U.S. officials are seeking to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act, blaming him for directingpublication of a huge trove of secret documents that disclosed the names of people who provided confidential information to American and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan....
in the past. The deposed dictator stands accused of narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices charges.

In late February, Pollack wrote to District Judge Alvin Hellerstein claiming that the administration of President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
is allegedly not allowing the Venezuelan state to pay for the dictator’s legal fees, and argued, "under Venezuelan law and custom, the government of Venezuela pays the expenses of the President and First Lady."

Following Maduro’s arrest, the Venezuelan socialist regime is being led by "acting President" Delcy Rodríguez, who concurrently served as the deposed dictator’s vice president and oil minister at the time of his arrest. Over the past months, Rodríguez has openly collaborated with the United States and has reached several agreements with the U.S. government, including oil, gas, and critical minerals.

A spokesperson from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) declined to offer details to ABC on Maduro’s current situation and reportedly stated, "For security and privacy reasons, the BOP does not disclose the conditions of confinement of any person in its custody."

"That is, for now, Nicolás Maduro’s situation in Brooklyn. Not that of a head of state surrounded by ministers, bodyguards, and cameras, but that of a defendant in pretrial detention, subjected to solitary confinement and the strict routine of a federal facility, awaiting a trial that could take months or even years to take place," ABC concluded.

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