Demonstrators hold anti-Maduro signs outside the the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, where ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is being held on January 5, 2026. Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to charges of narco-terrorism in a New York court on Monday, two days after being snatched by US forces in a stunning raid on his home in Caracas. Maduro, 63, told a federal judge in Manhattan that he had been "kidnapped" from Venezuela and said "I'm innocent, I'm not guilty," US media reported.