A spokesperson for the Southern District Court of New York informed that Maduro and his wife, legislator Cilia Flores, will be brought before Federal Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan at 12:00 hours (local time).

Maduro and Flores have been held, since Saturday evening, at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a high-security federal prison, in Brooklyn.

This will be their first hearing before the US justice system after the ruse of a case that, according to observers, aims at regime change in Venezuela and Trump’s announced control of the South American nation’s oil reserves.

The hearing will take place just 48 hours after the United States Government announced the kidnapping of the Bolivarian president and his life partner, in an operation that included the bombings of strategic targets of Venezuela.

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