Maduro defiant in courtroom as new particulars emerge about covert U.S. operation in Venezuela

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse, Cilia Flores, pleaded not responsible to federal drug trafficking and different expenses earlier than a choose in a federal courthouse in decrease Manhattan. In the meantime, new particulars are rising in regards to the covert U.S. operation to seize Maduro from his residence in downtown Caracas. Matt Gutman, Ed O’Keefe, Charlie D’Agata, Lilia Luciano, Cristian Benavides and Jill Schlesinger have extra.