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Maduro Drug Trial

6 countries 🇻🇪 🇸🇦 🇨🇭 🇰🇷 🇳🇬 🇨🇦 Crime & Justice

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro faces a drug trafficking trial in New York. Prosecutors and Maduro's team have proposed a June 2027 start date for the proceedings, with a recent hearing scheduled in the U.S. court.

🇻🇪 Venezuela/Spanish

Maduro, wife to stand trial in New York on June 1, 2027, for drug trafficking and terrorism

- Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores face a June 1, 2027, trial date in New York on drug trafficking and terrorism charges. - Maduro is accused of using his position to facilitate cocaine smuggling and faces a separate criminal investigation in Miami for alleged financial crimes. - International human rights experts suggest that while U.S. legal processes are unde…