Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores face torture charges in US court
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Nicolás Maduro, Cilia Flores
New York, USA
October 2026
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Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared in a New York court to face charges of leading a state-sponsored torture campaign. The couple, seized in January, pleaded not guilty to the rewritten indictment. The indictment alleges they oversaw a system involving beatings, asphyxiation, and electric shocks.
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