'Venezuela will be reborn': Maduro shares first photos from US prison since capture

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro smiles and flashes a peace sign in a photograph. (Photo: @NicolasMaduro) Two photographs posted to Nicolás Maduro's official social-media accounts on Sunday appear to show the former Venezuelan president smiling and making peace signs at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, nearly eight months after US forces captured him in Caracas.The pictures show the 63-year-old dressed in a grey sweatshirt and trousers with white shoes. Although released on August 30, timestamps on the photographs indicate they were taken on June 25.“I send these photos as a small gift to all my grandsons and granddaughters, to the boys and girls, and to all the noble people who love us,” Maduro said in an English rendering of his Spanish-language message. He said he and his wife, Cilia Flores, would “remain strong, serene, and confident” and added: “Venezuela will be reborn.” Maduro also described the support reaching the couple as “that love that reaches us transformed into prayer, into constant action, into solidarity and true support.”The June 25 date places the photographs a day after two earthquakes measuring magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela. The...