Following the US military invasion and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the legitimate president of Venezuela, the plane carrying him and his wife Cilia Flores landed at Stewart Air National Guard Base near New York on January 3, 2026.
Images released by reliable news sources show Maduro, dressed in a gray or light blue hoodie, disembarking from the plane and being transferred to a helicopter under a heavy escort of federal agents.
He was then transferred to DEA headquarters in Manhattan and eventually to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The following are the latest images available from the moment of Maduro’s arrival and escort. These images were published by news sources such as Fox News, Reuters, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, and the Associated Press, and show the moment Maduro disembarked from the transfer plane with a helicopter and heavy escort.
