“I’m innocent. I’m not guilty. I am a decent man,” the captured Venezuelan president told a judge in Manhattan federal court. “I am still president of my country.”
Nicolás Maduro, the ousted leader of Venezuela, at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport before being taken to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Monday.
Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, and his wife, Cilia Flores, will make their first appearance on Monday in a New York City courthouse, the site of other high-profile proceedings.
The trials of many notorious defendants have taken place at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan where Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, will be arraigned on Monday.