The United States has agreed to ease sanctions on Venezuela to allow the government to pay the legal fees of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in their high-profile criminal case in New York, according to court filings and multiple reports.
The decision marks a significant shift in a legal battle that had threatened to derail the prosecution after Maduro's defense argued that U.S. sanctions were preventing him from paying his lawyer and violating his constitutional rights.
