US EditionVenezuelan Dissident Explains His Courtroom Confrontation With Maduro
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This Monday there was a historic event: the former president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, appeared for the first time before the Justice of the United States, in Manhattan, New York. Lawyer Nizar El Fakih was present in the courtroom and was one of the witnesses who saw the Bolivarian leader chained and in prison uniform. In dialogue with LN+, he said that “it was a much longer hearing than expected.”Nizar El Fakih, lawyer“Maduro entered the ro…
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What the Kidnapping of Maduro Reveals About the Empire. When I first saw the photos of Nicolás Maduro sitting in a U.S. courtroom after being kidnapped from Caracas by American special forces, something in me broke. I don't mean I was surprised that Washington would do such a thing. The history of coups, assassinations, sanctions, and proxy wars has prepared all of us for that. What broke was my remaining faith in the idea that the international…
Venezuelan Dissident Explains His Courtroom Confrontation With Maduro
NEW YORK CITY—A Venezuelan dissident explained why he confronted his country’s former leader, Nicolás Maduro, inside a federal courtroom in the borough of Manhattan during the latter’s arraignment on Jan. 5. At the end of the hearing, during which Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism charges, Pedro Rojas, 33, called Maduro an “illegitimate” leader. Maduro shot back in Spanish, “I am a kidnapped president,” as he was escorted…
The former Venezuelan dictator and his wife, Cilia Flores, face federal charges for drug trafficking and arms in the United States. After the first hearing, they were transferred to a maximum security prison in Brooklyn. The entry How the judicial process against Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela will continue was first published in #BorderPeriodismo.
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After his arrest, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was transferred under strict security measures to the Federal Court of the Southern District of Manhattan, in the United States, where he faced his first court appearance yesterday. During the initial hearing, the official transcript of the exchange between the judge and the accused was heard, in which Maduro pleaded not guilty to all charges and called himself a “prisoner of war”, an asserti…
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