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You might expect the left leaning New Yorker magazine to be at least somewhat sympathetic to the plight of Venezuelan President (via fraud) Nicolas Maduro, currently residing in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center while awaiting his court trial for drug trafficking, narco-terrorism, and weapons offences. But Diego Lasarte's Tuesday story seems less about sympathy and more about generating laughter whether intentional or not as you can see in "What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail.The jail is "notorious," and Maduro is not?The possibility of laughter immediately emerges when Lasarte reveals that Maduro's temporary roommate was a heavily tattooed rapper with a long rap sheet named Tekashi 6ix9ine (birth name Daniel Hernandez). It turns out that Mr. 6ix9ine quickly became a huge fanboy of Maduro due in large part to the fact that the incarcerated Venezuelan gave him an autographed handmade figurine of SpongeBob SquarePants:
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