The former Venezuelan president says he is immune from the federal charges.
Deputy Jack Thorpe was requested to assist with emergency response operations.
A woman is speaking out after she and her 18-day-old son were pulled from the rubble of their collapsed apartment building following last week's earthquakes in Venezuela.
More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela.
An Argentine soccer player for a Venezuelan second division team has lost his wife and two children after last week's earthquakes, the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century.
Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira.