From President to Defendant: The Legal Case Against Maduro
The U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a dramatic raid in Caracas, bringing him to a Brooklyn detention center to face drug trafficking charges, raising urgent legal and geopolitical questions about the operation’s legitimacy and consequences.
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