The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and “narco-terrorism” charges on Monday, two days after his capture by US special forces in an operation ordered by Donald Trump that sent shockwaves around the world.
As Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, addressed the court in lower Manhattan, the UN security council held an emergency meeting just a few miles to the north, where a dozen countries condemned the US “crime of aggression” and the secretary general, António Guterres, suggested the operation constituted a breach of international law.
