Deposed Maduro pleads not guilty after capture in shock US attack on Venezuela
by Victoria Bekiempis in New York and Richard Luscomb from US news | The Guardian on (#72KMY)
President protests innocence in US court as countries at UN meeting condemn Donald Trump's crime of aggression'
The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges on Monday, two days after his capture by US special forces in an operation ordered by Donald Trump that sent shock waves around the world.
The brevity and formality of the arraignment hearing in federal court in Manhattan - barely 30 minutes during which Maduro was asked to confirm his name and that he understood the four charges against him - belied the far-reaching consequences of the US action.
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