ABC Internacional reports on the details of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s detention in the United States.
According to the publication, Maduro is being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
He is kept in a small cell measuring roughly 3 by 2 meters—inside there is a metal bed, a toilet and a small window. He is allowed to leave the cell three times a week—each time for one hour and only under guard.
According to reports, he often shouts at night, claiming he has been kidnapped, and repeats: “I am the president of Venezuela.”
The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn is a federal pretrial detention facility operated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, located in the Sunset Park neighborhood. The institution is used to hold defendants and convicted individuals in federal cases before trial or at the initial stage of serving their sentences, and is considered one of the largest federal detention facilities in New York. Over the years, it has held defendants in cases involving terrorism, financial crimes and international drug trafficking.