Maduro's son gives 'unconditional support' to newly sworn in interim Venezuela president

Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the lad of captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, has pledged his "unconditional support" to the recently sworn-in interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, who served arsenic his father's vice president.

"My unconditional enactment for the precise hard task you've been given," Maduro Guerra, often called "Nicolasito," said, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). "Count connected me, number connected my family, number connected our firmness successful taking the close steps astatine the forefront of this work that is present yours."

Maduro Guerra made the remarks during his archetypal nationalist quality since his begetter and stepmother, Cilia Flores, were captured by U.S. forces and extradited to New York. The ousted Venezuelan president’s son, who is himself a legislator, joined different ruling-party lawmakers for a planned swearing-in ceremonial of the National Assembly for a word that volition past until 2031, The Associated Press reported.

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Nicolás Maduro Guerra, lad of ousted President Nicolás Maduro, speaks to demonstrators connected the time Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was formally sworn successful arsenic Venezuela's interim president successful Caracas, Venezuela, connected Jan. 5, 2026.  (Maxwell Briceno/Reuters)

Maduro Guerra condemned the U.S. action, calling it a "kidnapping" and saying that "no state is safe."

"If we normalize the kidnapping of a caput of state, nary state is safe. Today, it's Venezuela. Tomorrow, it could beryllium immoderate federation that refuses to submit," Maduro Guerra said, according to the CBC. "This is not a determination problem. It is simply a nonstop menace to planetary governmental stability."

Rodríguez, who was sworn-in connected Monday, has served arsenic vice president since 2018. Despite her objection to the U.S. subject enactment that led to her erstwhile boss' arrest, Rodríguez has vowed to enactment with the Trump administration.

"I travel with sorrow for the suffering inflicted upon the Venezuelan radical pursuing an illegitimate subject aggression against our homeland," Rodríguez said, according to the AP.

At the opening league of the National Assembly's caller legislative term, Delcy Rodríguez is sworn successful arsenic acting president of Venezuela, pledging loyalty to Nicolás Maduro and to Hugo Chávez successful Caracas connected Jan. 5, 2026.  (Venezuelan National Assembly/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Maduro and Flores were captured by U.S. forces aboriginal Saturday greeting astatine their location successful Caracas, Venezuela. The Trump medication announced the cognition connected Saturday aft palmy "large-scale" subject strikes targeting the Venezuelan government. The dictator and his woman are present being held successful New York portion they hold to look narco-terrorism charges against them. The historical determination attracted praise and backlash crossed the globe, with immoderate questioning the legality of the operation.

China and Russia were among powers that condemned the U.S. cognition successful Venezuela, portion immoderate determination allies, including Argentina, applauded the move.

Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado — who won the Nobel Peace Prize successful 2025 for her combat for state successful Venezuela — praised the operation, saying Jan. 3 volition spell down arsenic a "day that justness defeated tyranny."

"It's a milestone, and it's not lone immense for the Venezuelan radical and our future, I deliberation it's a immense measurement for humanity, for freedom, and quality dignity," Machado said during an quality connected "Hannity."

Opposition person Maria Corina Machado gestures during an anti-government protestation connected Jan. 9, 2025, successful Caracas, Venezuela (Jesus Vargas/Getty Images)

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"A escaped Venezuela means, first, a information ally, dismantling the transgression hub of the Americas and turning it into a information shield, the strongest state to dismantle each these transgression structures that person made truthful overmuch harm and harm to our radical and to the American radical arsenic well," she said. "Secondly, we volition crook Venezuela into the vigor hub of the Americas. We volition bring regularisation of law. We volition unfastened markets. We volition springiness information to overseas investment. Third, we'll bring millions of Venezuelans that person been forced to fly their state backmost home, to physique a beardown nation, prosperous nation, unfastened society," Machado added.

Machado, who has spent much than a twelvemonth successful hiding, has vowed to instrumentality to Venezuela.

Fox News Digital's Maria Lencki and The Associated Press contributed to this report.