Latest / Wilmington News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!
Maduro Faces U.S. Torture Lawsuit | Wilmington News
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now facing a civil lawsuit in the U.S. over alleged human rights atrocities, as families of five men accuse him of creating and overseeing a deadly police unit called FAES that carried out extrajudicial killings and torture between 2017 and 2021. The suit, filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act, seeks damages and highlights how victims were targeted, executed, and their homes looted—with families forced to witness horrors without recourse in Venezuela’s broken justice system. Maduro, already detained in Brooklyn on separate drug and weapons…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.