[UPDATE-Jan 6] President Trump Says US Now Effectively Runs Venezuela

Maduro’s NYC trial, first court appearance – Narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine…    Venezuela’s president appeared at a NYC courtroom Monday to be read the charges against him: narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, the possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. A conviction on any of the charges would mean decades of prison time Maduro was demonstrably brought to the court in a prison uniform, his feet shackled, for maximum humiliation. His wife Cilia Flores was also forced to wear a prison uniform Barry Joel Pollack, a former lawyer for…