Poor Nicolás Maduro just can’t get a break. First, he loses the claim to the presidency – OK, let’s be real, the dictatorship – of Venezuela, to which he was not entitled. Then he and his wife got plucked out of their beds by American special operations troops and delivered henceforth into an American jail, to await charges.
Now he’s complaining that he’s being mistreated. How sad for him.
Venezuela’s former authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro complains about being mistreated from his small cell in the New York City prison he’s being held in since his capture in January, according to a new report.
Spanish outlet ABC detailed that his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn has a size of two meters by three meters. It quoted Sam Mangel, a prison consultant who knows about the facility based on conversations with inmates, who claimed that “no one would like to spend a minute” there.
This just in: Jails are unpleasant places. Well, duh. That’s kind of the whole point; you’re in jail, not at Club Med. And, we should note, as accused drug dealers go, Maduro looks like he’s being treated better than most.
Maduro, the outlet added, is kept at a special housing unit, where he is in isolation. He is allowed out three times a week for an hour in shackles and escorted by two guards. There, he can shower, use the phone, access email or go out to a small outdoor patio.
Elsewhere, ABC said that the lawyer of another Venezuelan inmate who is being held close to Maduro said he has heard him call for help at night. “I am the President of Venezuela, tell my country I’ve been kidnapped. Tell my country we’re being mistreated here,” he has reportedly said.
He wasn’t kidnapped, of course. He was arrested. There’s a huge, huge difference. He and his wife were both arraigned on drug charges. Maduro himself is expected to appear in court in the next few days. Prediction: He won’t make bail. Ever. He’ll remain where he is until his trial, and it he’s convicted, he’ll serve time in a federal prison that probably will be no more pleasant than where he is now.
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What is he complaining about, anyway? What are the conditions in a Venezuelan jail? What were the conditions in Venezuelan jails during Maduro’s dictatorship, or during the dictatorship of his commie predecessor, Hugo Chavez? Were those inmates allowed to make phone calls or check their email? Were they ever allowed to see the sky?
No, Nicolás Maduro is right where he belongs:
Outside the prison, Maduro’s successor, Delcy Rodriguez, continues to work with the Trump administration to avoid facing the same fate. In fact, the Department of Justice notified the court holding the Maduro case that it has formally recognized Rodriguez as the country’s legitimate head of State.
“Maduro is an accused narco terrorist waiting trial in a U.S. federal court for his crimes,” said Senior Bureau Official for Western Hemisphere Affairs Michael Kozak. He claimed that Washington’s goal is achieving a “gradual process that creates conditions for a peaceful transition towards a democratically elected government.”
That’s got to be a slow, painful burn for ex-Presidente Maduro. And that’s precisely as it should be.
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