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Venezuela’s Maduro in court for pre-trial hearing in US drug-trafficking case
Venezuelan president and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been held at Brooklyn jail and both have pleaded not guilty
Nicolás Maduro returns to court with his lawyers on Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the US military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug-trafficking charges.
Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail ever since US forces seized them from their Caracas home in a stunning middle-of-the-night raid and brought them to New York in early January.
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Venezuelan president and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been held at Brooklyn jail and both have pleaded not guilty
Nicolás Maduro returns to court with his lawyers on Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the US military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug-trafficking charges.
Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail ever since US forces seized them from their Caracas home in a stunning middle-of-the-night raid and brought them to New York in early January.
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