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: “Look, one of one,” 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. “Maduro signed it,” he said, proudly, before adding, “Venezuela forever." ...6ix9ine, who was at M.D.C. Brooklyn after violating the terms of his supervised release related to a 2018 case, claims to have been roommates with Maduro for a portion of his sentence—an experience he described in great detail to Adin Ross, the manosphere streamer. “I didn’t want to bug him, like, I didn’t want to seem like a fanned-out little girl,” 6ix9ine told Ross. “ ’Cuz as soon as he came in, like, I was, like, Yo, whatever you need.” At one point, early in his incarceration, Maduro seems to have been kept in a unit designed for solitary confinement, as is often the case for inmates of his status. Of course, 6ix9ine did have to overcome some problems with Maduro when they first met such as the latter's odor: “He smelled like shit when he first came out the box,” 6ix9ine explained. “But then, you know, he was able to get time to take a shower and stuff like that.” Despite his strange demeanor and appearance, 6ix9ine insists that he is a proud patriot: 6ix9ine also claimed that Maduro told him the details of the raid in Caracas, an operation that has been shrouded in mystery. (President Trump has said that U.S. forces used a secret weapon he called the “discombobulator” to incapacitate Maduro’s guards.) “I don’t think I can share it,” 6ix9ine said, when asked to elaborate. “He did, though . . . Imma just keep it to myself. And, if I ever get killed, I am deciding not to say anything. Like, I don’t want to talk about it at all. And I’m never going to talk about it. I’m a true American patriot.” Perhaps the funniest revelation of the story was that Maduro, who suffers from extreme insomnia, apparently spends his sleepless hours late at night screaming into the void: This sleeplessness has reportedly persisted in jail. According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, Maduro could be heard at night yelling, “I am the President of Venezuela!” and “Tell my country that I have been kidnapped!” Does Maduro think that no one in Venezuela has noticed that he he gone? Yes, they have noticed but the funny thing is they don't even much care, including his vice-president who hasn't really bothered much to bring about his return other than a few initial words of protest.