Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez thanked President Donald Trump for renewing cooperation with her government and promised elections.

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted, as he heads towards the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan for an initial

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A U.N.-mandated probe said on Wednesday that Venezuela's apparatus of repression remains largely intact despite a reduction in some abuses following President Nicolas Maduro's removal from power earlier this year.

Venezuela's repressive apparatus remains largely intact almost nine months after former President Nicolas Maduro was captured, a U.N. report says.

For more than a century, in cases involving defendants ranging from a 19th-century Chicago bank ⁠clerk ⁠charged with theft to a Central American dictator accused of drug ⁠trafficking, U.S. judges have rejected arguments that alleged violations of international law or treaty obligations should result in dismissal of criminal indictments.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has urged a United States judge to dismiss the criminal drug trafficking charges against him, arguing he should be immune from prosecution as the head of a sovereign country.

Interim president, who agreed a 65bn-barrel oil deal with the US, did not say whether she would visit her snatched predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, in jail