Judge cuts off ex-Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro’s rambling NYC court speech rejecting new torture rap

Source: New York Post

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro got cut off by a Manhattan federal judge Thursday as he delivered a rambling in-court speech while denying new charges of torturing US citizens. “I reject this document in its entirety,” said the deposed despot, 63, sporting a tan jail jumpsuit and looking slimmed down since his January arrest. Speaking through a Spanish interpreter, the accused drug-smuggling strongman said the charges were “false allegations” and the “sum of concepts and allegations that were already presented.