{"id":88267,"date":"2026-04-25T20:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88267"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:31:49","slug":"us-to-let-venezuela-pay-maduros-lawyer-in-drug-trafficking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/25\/us-to-let-venezuela-pay-maduros-lawyer-in-drug-trafficking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US to let Venezuela pay Maduro&#8217;s lawyer in drug trafficking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21GF7R.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6&amp;x=208&amp;y=106&amp;s=119&amp;d=119\" alt=\"Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with his lawyer, Barry Pollack, attend a hearing in a narco-terrorism case accusing him of running a cartel of Venezuelan officials that flooded the U.S. with cocaine, at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House in New York City, U.S., March 26, 2026 in this courtroom sketch.  REUTERS\/Jane Rosenberg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United States has agreed to modify its sanctions on Venezuela to allow the South American country&#8217;s government to pay Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s defense lawyer, backing off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/us-to-let-venezuela-pay-maduro-s-lawyer-in-drug-trafficking-case\/ar-AA21Hyvg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69ed226ad25a4035b5916816cb413efb&amp;ei=43\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The United States has agreed to modify its sanctions on Venezuela to allow the South American country&#8217;s government to pay Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Maduro-going-to-court.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88268,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267\/revisions\/88268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}