By Luc Cohen 和 Jack Queen
2026年3月26日 美国东部时间上午10:03 更新于1小时前
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[1/5] 2026年1月5日，在纽约市曼哈顿的丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉美国联邦法院，被扣押的委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗出庭受审，面临美国联邦指控，包括麻醉品恐怖主义、共谋、贩毒、洗钱等罪名。本法庭素描由路透社记者Jane Rosenberg于2026年1月5日拍摄。路透社/Jane Rosenberg/文件照片
[1/5] 2026年1月5日，在纽约市曼哈顿的丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉美国联邦法院，被扣押的委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗出庭受审，面临美国联邦指控，包括麻醉品恐怖主义、共谋、贩毒、洗钱等罪名。… 阅读更多
- 摘要
- 法官将考虑委内瑞拉政府是否可以支付法律费用
- 这对夫妇自被扣押以来第二次出庭
- 对他们的指控包括麻醉品恐怖主义共谋
纽约，3月26日（路透社）- 被罢免的委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗周四将重返曼哈顿法庭，他将辩称针对他的贩毒指控应被驳回。这距离他和妻子在1月被美国军方突袭抓获已有两个多月。
马杜罗和他的妻子西莉亚·弗洛雷斯（Cilia Flores）卷入了一场关于美国制裁的纠纷，这些制裁阻止委内瑞拉政府为这对夫妇的法律辩护付费。
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63岁的马杜罗和69岁的弗洛雷斯均对包括麻醉品恐怖主义共谋在内的指控不认罪，并被关押在布鲁克林等待审判。
他们已请求美国地区法官阿尔文·海勒斯坦（Alvin Hellerstein）驳回指控，称由于无法依靠委内瑞拉公共资金，他们无法根据美国宪法第六修正案选择自己的律师，这侵犯了他们的权利。
他们的律师表示，马杜罗和弗洛雷斯无力自行支付辩护费用。
曾代表维基解密创始人朱利安·阿桑奇（Julian Assange）的马杜罗律师巴里·波拉克（Barry Pollack）表示，如果海勒斯坦不驳回指控且委内瑞拉政府无法支付其费用，他希望退出此案。波拉克为马杜罗提供服务的收费标准尚不清楚。波拉克未回应置评请求。
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美国特种部队于1月3日突袭了他们在加拉加斯的住所，意外抓获马杜罗和弗洛雷斯，并将他们飞往纽约面临贩毒指控。路透社对此次秘密行动及其地缘政治影响的调查详细描述了这一行动。
听证会原定于美国东部时间上午11点（格林尼治标准时间1500点）开始。在今年1月的上一次法庭出庭时，直升机将他们从监狱运送到曼哈顿。
马杜罗和他的妻子（也将出庭）表示，根据委内瑞拉法律和惯例，政府应支付总统和第一夫人的费用。
检察官辩称，由于美国自2019年起不承认马杜罗为委内瑞拉合法总统，他们不应期望美国政府允许委内瑞拉支付其法律费用。检察官称，如果马杜罗和弗洛雷斯无力支付自己的律师费用，可被指派公共辩护人。
马杜罗面临四项重罪指控，包括麻醉品恐怖主义共谋，该法规将贩毒以资助美国认为是恐怖主义的活动定为犯罪。路透社对法院记录的分析发现，该法规在审判中很少被测试，且三项审判定罪中有两项因证人可信度问题被推翻。
在唐纳德·特朗普总统第一任期内，美国加大了对委内瑞拉的制裁，指控马杜罗政府腐败并破坏民主机构。华盛顿称马杜罗2018年的连任是欺诈性的。
马杜罗驳斥这些指控以及他参与贩毒的指控，称这是美国想要控制这个南美石油输出国组织成员国庞大石油储备的借口。
自马杜罗的前副总统德尔西·罗德里格斯（Delcy Rodriguez）在他被抓获后成为临时总统以来，加拉加斯和华盛顿之间的关系有所改善。
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Venezuela’s Maduro due back in US court in dispute over legal fees
By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen
March 26, 2026 10:03 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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Item 1 of 5 Venezuela’s captured President Nicolas Maduro attends his arraignment to face U.S. federal charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and others, at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 5, 2026 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo
[1/5]Venezuela’s captured President Nicolas Maduro attends his arraignment to face U.S. federal charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, drug trafficking, money laundering and others, at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 5, 2026 in… Read more
- Summary
- Judge to weigh whether Venezuelan government can pay legal fees
- US court appearance is the couple’s second since their capture
- Charges against them include narcoterrorism conspiracy
NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) – Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns to a Manhattan court on Thursday where he will argue that drug trafficking charges against him should be thrown out more than two months after he and his wife were captured in a surprise U.S. military raid in Caracas.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been embroiled in a dispute over U.S. sanctions that prevent the Venezuelan government from paying for the couple’s legal defense.
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Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, have each pleaded not guilty to charges including narcoterrorism conspiracy and are jailed in Brooklyn pending trial.
They have asked U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to dismiss the charges, saying their inability to rely on Venezuelan public funds is interfering with their right to have a lawyer of their choosing under the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Their lawyers have said Maduro and Flores cannot afford to pay their defense fees on their own.
Maduro’s lawyer, Barry Pollack, who represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has said he wants to withdraw from the case if Hellerstein doesn’t dismiss the charges and the Venezuelan government cannot pay his fees. It was unclear how much Pollack is charging Maduro for his services. Pollack did not respond to a request for comment.
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U.S. special forces captured Maduro and Flores in a surprise January 3 raid on their Caracas residence and flew them to New York to face drug trafficking charges, an operation detailed in a Reuters examination of the covert mission and its geopolitical fallout.
The hearing was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). For their previous court appearance in January, a helicopter whisked them from the jail into Manhattan.
Maduro and his wife, who will also be in court, say that under Venezuelan law and custom, the government pays the expenses of the president and first lady.
Prosecutors argue that because the U.S. has not recognized Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate president since 2019, he and Flores should not expect the U.S. government to allow Venezuela to pay their legal fees. The prosecutors say Maduro and Flores can be assigned public defenders if they cannot afford their own lawyers.
Maduro faces four felony charges including narcoterrorism conspiracy, which criminalizes drug trafficking to help finance activities the United States considers terrorism. The statute has rarely been tested at trial, and two of three trial convictions have been overturned over issues stemming from witness credibility, a Reuters analysis of court records found.
During his first term in the White House, President Donald Trump ramped up sanctions on Venezuela over allegations that Maduro’s government was corrupt and undermining democratic institutions. Washington called Maduro’s 2018 reelection fraudulent.
Maduro dismissed those accusations, along with allegations of his participation in drug trafficking, as pretextual justifications for what he called a U.S. desire to seize control of the South American OPEC nation’s vast oil reserves.
Relations between Caracas and Washington have improved since Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, became interim president after his capture.
Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Howard Goller
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