STORY: Supporters of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores marched in Caracas on Friday (January 16) to demand their release following their capture by U.S. forces on January 3.

The rally, called this time by Venezuela's farming sector, featured banners, flags and pictures of Maduro and Flores.

Marchers moved through central Caracas and gathered near the vice presidency.

Maduro allies have held daily marches calling for his release since his capture on January 3, which Venezuelan authorities say occurred during an attack that killed at least 100 people, including 47 Venezuelan military personnel.

Maduro is accused of overseeing a cocaine-trafficking network with international drug cartels and faces four criminal counts: narco-terrorism, cocaine importation conspiracy and possession of machine guns and destructive devices. Maduro has long denied the allegations, saying they were a mask for imperialist designs on Venezuela's rich oil reserves.

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SHOWS: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (JANUARY 16, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE MARCHING WITH BANNERS AND VENEZUELAN FLAGS

2. PERSON HOLDING PAINTING OF NICOLAS MADURO

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MEMBER OF RURAL YOUTH MOVEMENT, FRANCISCO AGUILAR, SAYING:

"We are simply exercising democracy, we are demanding today that the North American empire, President Donald Trump, return our constitutionally elected president and our first lady of the state. Today, we are exercising democracy, a participatory exercise. We are asking these people, since they have no evidence to incriminate him, to return our president. Today, we are demanding, with full right to our democracy, to our social justice, that justice prevail, that the rule of law be above individuality. Here in Venezuela, together as brothers and sisters, those who voted against and those who voted in favour, build the peace that is what really matters for our nation."

4. PEOPLE MARCHING

5. FIGURE OF SUPER BIGOTE (SUPER MUSTACHE), A CHARACTER INSPIRED BY MADURO

6. PEOPLE DURING MARCH

7. PEOPLE HOLDING ACTION FIGURES OF "SUPER CILITA" AND "SUPER BIGOTE" CHARACTERS INSPIRED BY MADURO AND CILIA FLORES

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RURAL SEED WORKER, LUISA DE MORALES, SAYING:

"We are here on the streets, to tell Donald Trump that he messed with the sacred part of our homeland, and we will not leave the streets until we see our president returned because we want him here in our country, as our constitutional president of the republic of Venezuela and our first combatant, Cilia Flores. Our support for them. We wait for them here in the streets, walking the streets of Venezuela."

9. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE MARCHING WITH BANNERS AND VENEZUELAN FLAGS

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RURAL WORKER, JOSE NOGUERA, SAYING:

"We are here today in the city of Caracas to give strong support to our president, Nicolas Maduro Moros, and deputy Cilia Flores, who were kidnapped by the empire in the United States since they did an evil thing by taking our president there. We here from Venezuela are supporting their release, because we cannot doubt, doubt is treason to the homeland."

11. PEOPLE WITH VENEZUELAN FLAG AND POSTER SHOWING IMAGE OF NICOLAS MADURO

12. PEOPLE MARCHING WITH BANNERS AND PAINTING OF NICOLAS MADURO

13. WOMAN WAVING VENEZUELAN FLAG FROM BALCONY

14. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE MARCHING