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Even as Venezuela’s de­tained pres­i­dent, Nicolás Maduro, ap­peared be­fore a US fed­er­al court to face charges in­clud­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism and con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine, Joel Ce­de­no was un­con­vinced that his coun­try had turned a cor­ner af­ter more than two decades un­der the Unit­ed So­cial­ist Par­ty of Venezuela (PSUV).

Maduro was ar­rest­ed on Sat­ur­day in Cara­cas dur­ing a US-led op­er­a­tion and flown to New York to an­swer fed­er­al charges.

Venezuela’s vice-pres­i­dent, Del­cy Ro­dríguez, was lat­er sworn in as in­ter­im pres­i­dent.