Eight months after being taken from Caracas by US special forces, former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has offered the world its first visual proof of his existence in a Brooklyn detention facility — two photographs of a thinner man in a grey tracksuit, making peace signs and writing to his grandchildren. The images surfaced two days after Venezuela's interim government struck an oil deal with Washington, and were dated to the same day earthquakes killed thousands of Venezuelans, lending the moment a layered silence that no caption could fully explain. In the long arc of power, exile, an
Detained Maduro posts first photos from US detention facility
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are detained in US custody; over 6,500 people killed in Venezuelan earthquakes on June 25.