{"id":20605,"date":"2026-03-27T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maduro-defense-prosecutors-argue-over-blocked-funds-to-pay-for-legal-team\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:22:10","slug":"maduro-defense-prosecutors-argue-over-blocked-funds-to-pay-for-legal-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maduro-defense-prosecutors-argue-over-blocked-funds-to-pay-for-legal-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro defense, prosecutors argue over blocked funds to pay for legal team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&rsquo;s attorney argued that Caracas should pay legal fees for him and his wife, Cilia Flores, during a Thursday hearing, arguing that the two cannot afford legal representation on their own.&nbsp; Maduro and Flores were captured by the U.S. military in January and are facing drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/5802906-venezuela-maduro-flores-legal-fees\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&rsquo;s attorney argued that Caracas should pay legal fees for him and his wife, Cilia Flores, during a Thursday hearing, arguing that the two cannot afford legal representation on their own.&nbsp; Maduro and Flores were captured by the U.S. military in January and are facing drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}