Maduro's son talks about his father imprisoned in the United States: “he feels that his vict...

At dawn on January 3, when the first bombing hit Caracas, Nicolás Maduro managed to record an audio for his son. He still doesn't want to make it public — "at some point it will come out," he promises — but he advances some phrases: "Nico, they are bombing. Let the country continue fighting, let's move forward." It was a farewell. “He thought he would die that day,” his son tells EL PAÍS four months after the attack that abruptly changed the history of Venezuela. “We all thought he was going to die that day.” This is the first time that Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra—Nicolasito, as he has been called for years to differentiate him from his father—has spoken publicly about January 3. It is, in fact, the first time that someone close to the president gives details to a media outlet about that traumatic night in which 83 people died, including soldiers and civilians. When it seems that Venezuela is turning the page, Maduro's only son, 35, is one of the few in Caracas who continues to speak in the present tense about the autocrat. One month and two days after that morning, Nicolás Maduro Guerra received a call. Things were calmer, a “new political moment” had begun and he was in his seat in the National Assembly in one of the sessions in which the amnesty law was debated. He was one of the sons of his stepmother Cilia Flores. They were connecting him to his father on the other end of the line. It was the first time I had heard that voice since 3