The imprisoned leader is innocent, Delcy Rodríguez told NBC as the US energy secretary visits Caracas to overhaul the oil sector Nicolas Maduro remains Venezuela’s legitimate leader despite his capture by US forces a month ago, the country’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, told NBC News on Thursday.  Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were seized in a US military raid on Caracas on January 3 and flown to New York, where they are being held in federal custody facing drug trafficking charges.