Symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International Crimes: The Tangled Legal Terrain of the Maduro Cases - Crimes Against Humanity, Drug Trafficking and the Immunity of an Alleged President

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Generally, State representatives at the UN are designated by the country's government, as a prerogative of their sovereignty.
51% : But, for instance, the permanent mission of Afghanistan to the UN to this day is still assured by a representative of the former republic, even after the Talibans seized effective power in 2021 (see here, pp 650 et seq).
48% : Her research focuses on the institution, the use and the effects of the veto power by the permanent members (P5) of the United Nations Security Council] On the early morning of January 3, 2026, Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife Cilia Flores were removed by U.S. forces from Caracas and were transferred to a Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where they were presented with drug trafficking and weapon possession charges.
48% : In Venezuela, this already happened in 2019, when more than fifty States and international organizations - the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS) - recognized sovereign prerogatives to Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate Interim President and cut diplomatic relations with the Maduro's government, even if he was still sitting in Miraflores (the Presidential Palace).

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