🧵 Saga file #51
Maduro torture charges
Oct 7, 9 PM ET to Oct 17, 12 AM ET
- 2parts so far
- 35outlets carried a part
- 🫏10 · 11 · 13🐘left · center · right
- 9.1 daysrunning so far
- 56 minof TV captions
- 3radio newscasts
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 7, 9 PM ET · on the front pages 2.9 daysUS adds torture charges against Maduro and wife
- Oct 15, 1 PM ET · on the front pages 1.5 daysMaduro pleads not guilty to new torture charges
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. US adds torture charges against Maduro and wife
Oct 7, 9 PM ET · 34 outlets · on the front pages 2.9 days
“Maduro, Wife Face Charges Over Tortured Americans” first: Newsmax
📺 CNN 33 min, BBC News 18 min, Fox News 5 min · 📻 2 newscasts
2. Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture charges
Oct 15, 1 PM ET · 14 outlets · on the front pages 1.5 days
“Nicolas Maduro pleads not guilty to torture” first: ABC News, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, Newsmax, Reuters, The Epoch Times, The Guardian
· 📻 1 newscast
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-16 Comeuppance ×1
- 2026-10-09 Comeuppance ×1
- 2026-10-08 ✨ Comeuppance ×2
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.