Maduro strikes defiant tone as he professes innocence in court

Nicolás Maduro, the former Venezuelan president whom U.S. forces toppled, struck a defiant tone Monday as he doubled down in self-defense while pleading not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges.  “I was captured,” Maduro said in Spanish, according to a courtroom reporter’s translation before he was cut off by the judge, the Associated Press reported.   Later asked to enter his [...]