Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on Thursday reiterated before a federal court in New York that they do not have the financial means to fund their defense in the ongoing drug trafficking case, outlets reported.

Maduro and Flores have remained detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after President Donald Trump authorized a law enforcement operation in Caracas to arrest the pair on January 3. They are facing drug trafficking charges are due back in federal court for a hearing on March 26.

EFE reported that, in the new document submitted by the lawyers on Thursday, the dictator’s…

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