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Nicolás Maduro

Former President, Venezuela

Search every verified Nicolás Maduro interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, appeared in a New York federal court on January 5, 2026, alongside his wife, Cilia Flores, where both pleaded not guilty to federal charges including drug trafficking and conspiracy. During the hearing, Maduro stated, "I am the president of the Republic of Venezuela," and described himself as a "prisoner of war," asserting that he was "captured at my home in Caracas." His defense attorney signaled an intent to challenge the legality of his capture by U.S. forces)Skip. Prior to his capture, Maduro had been engaged in an escalating confrontation with the Trump administration. In December 2025, he described a phone call with President Donald Trump as "respectful" and "cordial," and expressed openness to dialogue. However, he also condemned U.S. actions, including the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, which he called "an act of piracy." Maduro accused the U.S. of seeking to "colonize Venezuela in order to seize the wealth we have in oil, gas, gold, iron, aluminum," and repeatedly stated, "No blood for oil." He also claimed that Venezuelan forces shot down nine aircraft he said were linked to drug trafficking, calling it a "world record."

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“Venezuela has been a good payer and a good partner when it comes to financial agreements. We've paid all our obligations up until the irrational and cruel policy of sanctions came. If I had the payment for our creditors today, for the creditors of the republic, if I had a bag full of dollars here, 17 billion dollars that they've stopped collecting due to the brutality of the sanctions, I wouldn't be able to pay them ”

“The policy Trump established and left as legacy against Venezuela is an extremist one, an irrational one that broke relations between the United States and Venezuela. And it's been questioned several times and considered by the United Nations human rights organizations a policy that abuses Venezuelan human rights. According to polls, over 84% of Venezuelan population rejects all of these cruel criminal sanctions, whi”

“We have had a strategy that is absolutely correct, which is the indexing of all of the incomes. This has allowed together with entrepreneurship to combine the works that were created employment right of indexing and also familiar businesses and of cooperatives among workers.”

“This is the second year, the consecutive year that Venezuela leads the growth of the real economy of Latin America and the Caribbean. We have 20 continuous trimesters since in 2020 when we took off.”

“In 24 hours, the Bolivarian military aviation shot down and eliminated nine foreign drug trafficking vessels, aircraft on the border with Colombia and the border with Brazil. Nine. A world record only Venezuela.”

“From the United States and originating from within the United States itself, they are actively transmitting false news and waging a relentless war against a truly noble and sovereign country, a nation like Venezuela. Absolutely everything that they are saying, every single word is a complete and utter lie.”

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