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Too Old? The 92-Year-Old US Judge Handling Maduro Case

Judge Hellerstein faces complex legal issues including presidential immunity and defense funding blocking as Nicolás Maduro's pretrial case continues under intense scrutiny.

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Former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro heads to court again this week. The judge overseeing this case is longtime federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein. At 92 years old, Hellerstein is older than the average age of a federal judge by more than 20 years.

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After his meeting last week in Washington with the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, the head of the Chilean Public Prosecutor's Office, Ángel Valencia, highlighted the cooperation that the U.S. country can do in investigating the crime of the Venezuelan dissident Ronald Ojeda.In an interview with cooperative radio on Monday morning, Valencia addressed the possibility that Nicolás Maduro, the former Venezuelan leader who remains in detention in …

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The case of alleged drug trafficking against the former Venezuelan president enters a decisive phase in New York

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Ángel Valencia remarked that the fact that the diligence takes place depends on “multiple factors” and that “it seems to us that it is a minimal diligence, that we would be negligent if we hadn’t”.

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France24 broke the news in France on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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