Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was scheduled to make his first appearance in a New York federal courthouse after he and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, were captured by U.S. forces in a surprise attack over the weekend.

A dramatic new phase of President Donald Trump’s showdown with Venezuela started Saturday, when the United States launched a large-scale series of strikes – followed hours later by Trump’s announcement that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro had been captured by US forces,