Maduro to appear in U.S. court on Monday

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Maduro to appear in U.S. court on Monday
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Venezuela's captured president, Nicolás Maduro, is due to appear in a U.S. court at 6 p.m. Swedish time on Monday.

Maduro will formally have the charges against him read out in a federal court in Manhattan, New York.

Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured by U.S. forces in Venezuela on Saturday and taken to New York. The couple arrived late Saturday at a notorious Brooklyn detention center.

The U.S. accuses Maduro of facilitating large-scale cocaine smuggling into the U.S. In the indictments that have been made public so far, the president is accused of acting in collusion with several of Latin America's largest drug cartels and allowing them to smuggle huge amounts of cocaine through the country.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X on Saturday that the presidential couple should be tried for "narco-terrorism" and threatened "the full wrath of American justice."

The United States has used accusations of "narco-terrorism" to justify Saturday's intervention in Venezuela.

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