Captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro lands at upstate New York airport after he and wife were seized by Trump who says he's now running their country
Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has arrived in the United States after being seized from his Caracas compound by US Army Delta Force soldiers.
A white FBI Boeing 757 landed at Stewart Air National Guard Base in upstate New York after 4:30pm Saturday afternoon.
Cops subsequently boarded the plane to take Maduro into custody.
Hours earlier, footage emerged that is believed to show him being frog-marched onto a separate plane in Puerto Rico.
That video is unverified and appears to show Maduro and his wife Cilia being taken onto a different plane.
The pair are believed to have had one stop in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which may explain the change in aircraft type.
US troops captured the Venezuelan President and his wife Cilia Flores in Caracas Friday night before transporting them to New York City on drug trafficking charges.
As the shock abduction ordered by Donald Trump sends shockwaves around the world, Puerto Rican broadcaster NotiCentro has shared video allegedly showing Maduro and Flores being escorted onto a US military plane in Aguadilla.
Shot from several hundred yards away, the footage follows a huddle of people boarding a plane on the runway at Ramey Base, a former US Air Force strip at Rafael Hernandez International Airport.
The mayor of Aguadilla, Julio Roldan, also wrote on social media that the Venezuelan dictator had been 'transferred' through the city, which is located on the north-western coast of Puerto Rico, around 600 miles north of Caracas.
'Aguadilla was the first American jurisdiction where they transferred the detainee Nicolás Maduro,' Roldan said Saturday.
'An additional sample of geopolitical value Aguadilla has for our common defense.'
After his capture by the US Army's elite Delta Force unit, Maduro and his wife were flown by helicopter to the USS Iwo Jima warship.
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