NEW YORK CITY—A Venezuelan dissident explained why he confronted his country’s former leader, Nicolás Maduro, inside a federal courtroom in Manhattan during the latter’s arraignment on Jan. 5.
At the end of the hearing during which Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism charges, Pedro Rojas, 33, called Maduro an “illegitimate” leader.
“I am a kidnapped president,” Maduro shot back in Spanish as he was escorted by deputy U.S. Marshals.
Rojas, who said he was a political prisoner in Venezuela in 2019, later said: “What we want is for the full weight of the law to fall upon Maduro.”…
Venezuelan Dissident Explains His Courtroom Confrontation With Maduro
