An armoured vehicle carrying ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores arrived at a New York courthouse, where Maduro is set to appear later on today on drugs and weapons charges.
Deposed Venezuelan leader Maduro led into courtroom wearing a blue jail uniform along with his co-defendant wife, tells judge, ‘I’m a decent man, president of my country’. The courtroom appearance, Maduro’s first since he and his wife were seized from their home in a stunning middle-of-the-night military operation, kick-starts the US government’s most consequential prosecution in decades of a foreign head of state. The criminal case in Manhattan is unfolding against the diplomatic backdrop of an audacious US-engineered regime change that President Donald Trump said will enable his administration to “run” the South American country.