Under pressure from Trump, Venezuela’s new president has aces up her sleeve

(Alicia Hernández – BBC) A luminous outline of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores loomed over Caracas against the night sky in January. The steady light of hundreds of drones in a show put on by the government in Venezuela, suspended their image in front of the clouds, before rearranging to call for their return: “El pueblo los reclama,” they spelled out, “the people want them back”. After a lightning operation by the US to spirit the deposed president and his wife out of the country on 3 January, Venezuela has found itself in limbo. Despite Delcy Rodríguez, the former vice president and now acting Venezuelan leader, calling for the return of Maduro and Flores, there are no signs that’s going to happen. The former first couple are in New York in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial for alleged crimes including drug trafficking, all of which they deny. – Under pressure from Trump, Venezuela’s new president has aces up her sleeve