Venezuela's jailed president Nicolas Maduro faces a long legal journey in New York after US forces captured him and his wife during a military raid in Caracas on January 3.
Two days later and 3,500km north, Mr Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores made their first court appearances, pleading not guilty to the charges that the US government has levelled against them.
Here is a look at those charges, and what happens next:
Criminal charges
According to the indictment against Mr Maduro, he and his wife, along with other Venezuelan leaders, have “abused their positions of public trust and corrupted once-legitimate institutions to import tonnes of cocaine into the United States”.
A US federal indictment contains four criminal counts: narco-terrorism conspiracy; cocaine importation conspiracy; posses
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