{"id":90041,"date":"2026-01-05T18:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90041\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:29:11","slug":"nicolas-maduro-pleads-not-guilty-in-manhattan-court-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90041\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Maduro Pleads Not Guilty In Manhattan Court Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBroadcast and cable networks provided special reports Monday as Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the ousted leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venezuela\" data-tag=\"venezuela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela<\/a>, and his wife Cilia Flores appeared in a New York federal court and pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe primary image on screens of the arraignment hearing were the gold doors on the outside of the Manhattan federal courthouse, with several officers on guard. Cameras are prohibited from federal district courts, even in high-profile cases, leaving news outlets to make do with running commentary and other means to provide immediate updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cnn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cnn\" data-tag=\"cnn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> ran a running scroll of text updates from some of their correspondents, including Lauren Del Valle and Holmes Lybrand, while Fox News ran headlines of what was happening inside the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/trump-venezuela-attack-media-1236660784\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2254469475.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/leonardo-dicaprio-palm-springs-film-festival-venezuela-1236660972\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dicaprio.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo DiCaprio to receive the Palm Springs Film Festival's 2026 Desert Palm Achievement Award\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring the hearing, per the AP, Maduro, speaking in Spanish, said he was \u201ccaptured\u201d and that he was \u201cinnocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the president of my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMaduro is facing multiple drug trafficking charges after U.S. forces seized him and his wife in a raid in Caracas on Saturday. Trump administration officials have referred to the operation as a law enforcement one, but U.S. forces bombed sites in the city as part of the effort to seize Maduro. President <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> has said that the U.S. is now running the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcast and cable networks provided special reports Monday as Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the ousted leader of Venezuela, and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5058,153,75,84,83,1208,9,24,15862,63,7318],"class_list":{"0":"post-90041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-cnn","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nicolas-maduro","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}