Venezuela, the FBI indicts Maduro and Flores also for torture

There is another charge for the former president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Clilia Flores, detained in New York after their capture in the raid at the beginning of 2026 and indicted by the FBI now also for conspiracy to commit torture and, in the case of the former first lady of Caracas, for narco-terrorism. The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, communicates this on X. New investigations, explains Patel, have led to the additional indictment, according to which the Maduro regime subjected over a dozen American citizens, detained in Venezuelan prisons, to torture including "drug administration, electroshock, sexual violence and more".

Already accused of drug and weapons trafficking

Maduro and Flores were initially charged with drug and weapons trafficking after they were captured in a US military operation in Caracas on January 3 and transferred to a prison in Brooklyn. The court document says the pair are responsible for "inflicting intense physical and mental pain and suffering" on several people. The presidential couple's stated goal, the document continues, was "to repress and punish political opposition, silence dissent, preserve and protect the power and authority of members of the conspiracy, and intimidate, harass, and neutralize opponents, including through kidnapping."

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