Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro seen on Aug. 17, 2024, in Caracas, Venezuela. He’s dealing with fees of narco-terrorism and is in a federal court docket in New York this afternoon.
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Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, politician and lawyer Cilia Flores, are making their first court docket look at a federal court docket in New York Metropolis of their narco-terrorism case.
U.S. District Choose Alvin Okay. Hellerstein is overseeing the proceedings.
It is the primary time the now-former head of the Venezuelan state can be extensively seen publicly because the U.S. attacked Caracas, captured him and his spouse, and introduced them to the U.S. over the weekend to face these fees in court docket.
Maduro is dealing with fees of narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine-importation conspiracy and weapons fees. Flores and different senior Venezuelan officers, together with Maduro’s son, are additionally dealing with fees.
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