VENEZUELA: Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado announced on Monday that she plans to return to Venezuela “as soon as possible,” rejecting the authority of the country’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez. Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, made the remarks in her first public comments since US forces removed and detained President Nicolas Maduro over the […]
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Maduro appears in Manhattan over drug charges
Venezuela’s deposed leader Nicolas Maduro was transferred under heavy security to a federal court in Manhattan on Monday. He is due to face US drug-related charges linked to international cocaine trafficking networks. Maduro was moved from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of his appearance before US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. Television footage showed Maduro […]