A woman left disfigured when\u00a0Venezuelan military forces tossed boiling water on her at an anti-government protest in Caracas in 2021 begged a Manhattan federal judge\u00a0 Monday to lock up dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro for as long as possible.<\/p>\n
The woman, who said she immigrated to the US from Caracas shortly after she was injured, was among scores of demonstrators who gathered outside court as Maduro pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism charges inside, after his dramatic US capture over the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here today asking for his sentence to be as long as possible \u2014 the maximum,\u201d said the woman, who now works at a community center in New Rochelle, told The Post.<\/p>\n
The woman was left disfigured when\u00a0Venezuelan military forces tossed boiling water on her at an anti-government protest in Caracas in 2021 Steven Vago \/ NYPost<\/p>\n
She begged a Manhattan federal judge\u00a0 Monday to lock up dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro for as long as possible. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
She only identified herself as Carmen because she said she still has family back in Venezuela and fears for their safety since she\u2019s speaking out.<\/p>\n
Clutching a photo of herself on her phone showing her badly burned after her 2021 attack, Carmen said she was \u201ctortured\u201d by Maduro\u2019s regime simply for exercising free speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was tortured for expressing myself and having my opinion,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey threw boiling water on me.<\/p>\n
Maduro is escorted Monday for an initial appearance to face federal charges, including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and others. REUTERS<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s because of protests. I was not allowed freedom of speech,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Carmen stood in opposition to the handful of lefty counter-demonstrators who rallied outside the court to denounce Maduro\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever they think is completely opposite of what Maduro is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a murderer, a criminal. They wouldn\u2019t understand. They\u2019ll never understand what it\u2019s like to be hungry or go to a hospital and not receive help.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added, \u201cThey can be protesting here and nothing will happen to them. In Venezuela they would be oppressed, shot at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman left disfigured when\u00a0Venezuelan military forces tossed boiling water on her at an anti-government protest in Caracas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4234,277,9,56,63,65,64,42364,58,7318],"class_list":["post-90183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-judges","tag-manhattan-federal-court","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro","tag-us-news","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90183","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=90183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}