'Free our president', Maduro supporters demand at rallyListen to this articleA supporter of ousted Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro demonstrates with a national flag in Caracas a day after he was captured in a US strikeCARACAS - Around 2,000 supporters of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro demonstrated Sunday in Caracas to demand that he and his wife, who were nabbed by US forces and taken to a New York jail, be released. "Free our president," read a placard held by a man with a red flannel shirt which bore the image of Maduro's predecessor and mentor, late socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez. On Monday, Maduro is due in court in New York to face charges of "narcoterrorism" tied to alleged cocaine trafficking into the United States. "Nicolas Maduro was removed by traitors, because with the amount of security he had this should never have happened," he said. Maduro's son Nicolas Maduro Guerra also voiced suspicion about the presence of spies in his father's entourage in an audio message shared on social media on Sunday.

Source: Bangkok Post January 05, 2026 05:56 UTC