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US-Venezuela: Maduro Faces Court

Venezuela鈥檚 president pleads not guilty to drugs charges.

Today, the seized President of Venezuela, Nicol谩s Maduro has appeared in a New York court charged with narco-terrorism. As Maduro pled not guilty he told the court he was a 鈥渄ecent man鈥 and 鈥渟till the president of his country鈥.

The highly televised spectacle of the Venezuelan leader being transferred to the court came as the UN security council held an emergency meeting across the city and President Trump reiterated his interest in annexing Greenland in the name of American national security.

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