Venezuelan opposition leader, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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Met with Trump at White House on January 15; presented Nobel Prize medal but received no endorsement for leadership
Delta Force operators captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas at 2 a.m. on January 3 as explosions rocked the capital and helicopters evacuated them to the USS Iwo Jima, bound for New York. By Saturday afternoon, Maduro arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn—the first American military capture of a sitting head of state since Manuel Noriega in 1989.
Updated Oct 3
Backers demand her safe return and elections
Venezuela freed 39 political prisoners over the weekend, the largest release since spring. The move came days after interim President Delcy Rodríguez met Donald Trump in New York, where she promised elections but gave no date.
Updated Sep 28
Leading opposition movement; in hiding since 2024 election
Opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa was released from prison on February 8, 2026, then seized by armed men hours later and placed under house arrest. In late September, after a second round of talks between the interim government and opposition, at least 29 more political prisoners were freed.
Updated Sep 27
Opposition leader unable to return to Venezuela from exile; has not rejected the oil deal
Venezuela's opposition backed the U.S. operation that captured Nicolás Maduro in January. Nine months on, acting president Delcy Rodríguez told the U.N. on Sept. 23 that elections will come, but gave no date and thanked President Trump.
Updated Sep 24
Met with Trump but received no endorsement for Venezuelan leadership
Congress hasn't declared war since 1942, though presidents have ordered 212 military strikes without formal declarations. On January 3, 2026, U.S. special forces raided Venezuela, captured President Nicolás Maduro in his residence, and flew him to New York to face narcoterrorism charges.
Updated May 22
In Washington; Nobel platform diminished by Trump skepticism; addressed Munich Security Conference; facing potential prosecution if returns
Seven weeks after U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has consolidated interim power through military loyalty pledges, oil privatization, and prisoner releases. In an NBC interview on February 12, she pledged 'free and fair' elections but refused to set a timeline, conditioning them on Venezuela being 'free from sanctions'.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2025
The Nobel Assembly kicked off October 2025 by awarding the Medicine Prize to three scientists who discovered the immune system's off-switch—regulatory T cells controlled by the Foxp3 gene. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell identified the gene in 2001 while studying scurfy mice that died from autoimmune storms. Shimon Sakaguchi had already discovered the cells themselves in 1995. Together, their work explained why our immune systems don't destroy us and opened the door to treatments for everything from diabetes to lupus.
Updated May 19
In hiding since July 2024 election
Delta Force dragged Nicolás Maduro from his bedroom at 2 AM on January 3, threw him on a helicopter, and flew him to the USS Iwo Jima bound for Manhattan. The Venezuelan president now faces narco-terrorism charges in the same courthouse that convicted El Chapo.
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