Maduro sends peace and love in first prison photos after US capture

Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has posted photographs online that appear to have been taken inside a US detention centre months after his capture by American forces.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared in his first photos from a New York prison, smiling as he awaits trial on federal drug trafficking charges.

In the two photographs, Venezuela's deposed leader Nicolás Maduro is wearing a gray tracksuit and making peace signs with his hands.

The photos surfaced two days after Maduro's successor, Delcy Rodriguez, announced a "historic" oil agreement allowing the US to operate oil fields in Venezuela.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized in Caracas during a US military operation in January

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