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Maduro strikes defiant tone as he professes innocence in court 

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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 [...]