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Venezuela’s Maduro returns to court to challenge US drug trafficking case

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Nicolas Maduro returns to court with his lawyers on Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the US military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug trafficking charges.

Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail ever since US forces seized them from their Caracas home in a stunning middle-of-the-night raid and brought them to New York in early January.

Both have pleaded not guilty.

They face potential life prison sentences if a jury agrees that they were part of a conspiracy to send cocaine into the US.

President Donald Trump’s administration has defended the raid as a “surgical law enforcement operation” in a criminal case first brought six years ago.

Maduro has called himself a prisoner of war and his capture a kidnapping.

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