U.S. Warns Its Citizens in Venezuela to Be Wary of Paramilitary Groups

State department officials made a visit to Caracas on Friday as part of what are believed to be preparations for the re-opening of the US embassy there. Maduro’s successor, the acting president Delcy Rodríguez, has called for improved relations with Washington despite her ally’s abduction.

Separately Venezuela’s deposed leader Maduro claimed he was “doing well” in a US jail as he and his wife Cilia Flores await trial, the ex-leader’s son said in a video on Saturday.

“We are doing well. We are fighters,” Maduro’s son, lawmaker Nicolas Maduro Guerra, quoted him as saying. Maduro Guerra spoke in a video released by the ruling PSUV party.