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Where is Maduro being held in the US?
Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife are being held at a notorious Brooklyn jail known as the Metropolitan Detention Center or MDC Brooklyn.
The facility had such a troubled reputation that some judges have refused to send defendants there. It has housed famous inmates including music stars R. Kelly and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
It is also the same facility that housed former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was pardoned and freed by US President Donald Trump in December.
The MDC opened in the early 1990s and currently has around 1,300 inmates, largely alleged gangsters and drug traffickers and some accused of white collar crimes.
Nicolas Maduro to appear in New York court
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is due to appear before a US federal judge on Monday, after US forces seized him and his wife from their residence in a military base in Caracas.
The US had already charged Maduro and other Venezuelan top officials with narco-terrorism conspiracy in 2020.
On Saturday, following Maduro's dramatic arrest, the US Justice Department released a new indictment of him and his wife. It described his administration as a "corrupt, illegitimate government" that it said was fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that allegedly flooded the US with cocaine.
Monday is set to mark Maduro's first appearance in Manhattan's federal court for a brief legal proceeding.
UN Security Council to meet on request of Colombia
The UN Security Council (UNSC) is holding an emergency meeting later on Monday to discuss the US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro.
The meeting was called by Colombia and backed by China and Russia, both major backers of Venezuela.
Colombia has also faced threats by US President Donald Trump, who accused President Gustavo Petro of drug trafficking. Petro rejected the threats and told Trump to "stop slandering" him.
Monday's session is likely to provide a platform for international concern over the US attack.
