Maduro, wife plead not guilty to new US torture charges

1 week ago

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to an expanded US indictment charging them with conspiracy to commit torture. Speaking through an interpreter at a federal court in New York on Thursday, Maduro dismissed the revised indictment as a repackaging of earlier false claims, CNN reported. Flores, whose request for house arrest was recently denied,