‘We trust in the US legal system,’ Maduro’s son says

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s son, whose father faces a second hearing before a New York court Thursday, said that he trusts the US legal system but that the case was tainted by his parents’ “kidnapping.”

“We trust in the legal system of the United States,” Nicolas Maduro Guerra, a lawmaker also known as “Nicolasito,” or “Little Nicolas,” said in Caracas.

But he added: “This trial has vestiges of illegitimacy from the start, because of the capture, the kidnapping, of an elected president in a military operation.”

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will appear Thursday in a New York court for the second time since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid.

Maduro, 63, and wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail for almost three months after American commandos snatched the pair from their compound in Caracas in early January.