2026年9月3日 / 美国东部时间上午5:08 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
纽约 — 委内瑞拉前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗及其妻子周三向法官提出申请，要求驳回对他们的贩毒起诉，理由是作为外国国家元首和第一夫人，他们享有豁免权。
马杜罗的律师在曼哈顿联邦法院提交的文件中表示，根据法律规定法官必须驳回这项起诉，因为不能对外国领导人提起此类诉讼。
“美国的法院从未审理过在起诉提起时被本国认可为现任国家元首的外国领导人的刑事审判，”律师们写道。“这并非历史偶然，而是反映了一项比普通法更为古老的原则：国家元首免受本国以外任何国家法院的刑事管辖。”
马杜罗及其妻子定于明年6月1日就贩毒指控接受审判。阿尔文·K·赫勒斯坦法官已将11月17日定为驳回起诉动议的口头辩论日期。
现年63岁的马杜罗和69岁的妻子西莉亚·弗洛雷斯自1月初美军在午夜突袭加拉加斯的住所将他们抓获并带到纽约以来，一直被关押在布鲁克林监狱。
在周三提交的另一份文件中，弗洛雷斯的律师表示，她也基于主权豁免权享有免受美国起诉的权利。
“这是委内瑞拉主权的一项属性，只有委内瑞拉才能放弃这项权利，”她的律师写道。
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马杜罗的律师表示，即使马杜罗不享有国家元首的主权豁免权，对他的案件也必须驳回，因为他还享有基于行为的主权豁免权。
与此同时，律师们辩称，马杜罗“强烈否认对他的所有指控”。
“如果本案进入审判程序，显而易见他是被诬告的，”他们说。
两人均对这起六年前首次针对多名所谓同谋提起的刑事案件表示不认罪。如果陪审团认定他们参与了向美国运送可卡因的阴谋，他们可能面临终身监禁。
联邦检察官计划在本月晚些时候对这些辩护理由作出回应。
特朗普政府为抓捕马杜罗的突袭行动辩护，称其为“精准执法行动”。马杜罗则称自己是战俘，称其被捕是绑架。
美国检察官表示，马杜罗与委内瑞拉执法部门勾结，帮助毒枭将数千吨可卡因运入美国，从而实施了这一阴谋。
马杜罗一直态度强硬。周日，他在社交媒体上发布了自己在监狱中的照片，称自己“立场坚定”。
“我发布这些照片，作为给所有孙辈、所有男孩女孩，以及所有深爱我们的高尚人民的小礼物，”他写道。
“我想让你们知道，我们立场坚定，心中充满了你们的爱——这种爱转化为祈祷、持续的行动、团结和真正的支持。非常感谢每一句话、每一个举动、每一份祝福，”他继续说道。
据法新社报道，他在Telegram聊天软件上补充道：“我们将保持坚强、冷静和自信：上帝与我们同在。上帝会眷顾我们。委内瑞拉将再次崛起。”
Maduro, wife seek dismissal of drug trafficking indictment on immunity grounds
September 3, 2026 / 5:08 AM EDT / CBS/AP
New York — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country.
In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Maduro said a judge was required by law to reject the indictment because it cannot be brought against a foreign leader.
“No American court has ever presided over the criminal trial of a foreign leader who was recognized by their own country as the sitting head of state at the time the charges were brought,” the lawyers wrote. “That is not an accident of history. It reflects a rule older than the common law: heads of state are exempt from the criminal process of any national court but their own.”
Maduro and his wife are scheduled to go on trial on drug trafficking charges next June 1. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has set oral arguments for Nov. 17 on motions to dismiss the indictment.
Maduro, 63, and his wife, Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail since U.S. forces seized them from their Caracas home in a middle-of-the-night raid in early January and brought them to New York.
In separate papers filed Wednesday, lawyers for Flores said she too has immunity from U.S. prosecution on sovereign immunity grounds.
“It is an attribute of Venezuela’s sovereignty, and only Venezuela may surrender it,” her lawyers wrote.
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Maduro’s lawyers said that even if Maduro were not entitled to sovereign immunity as the head of state, the case against him must be dismissed because he is also entitled to conduct-based sovereign immunity.
Meanwhile, the lawyers argued, Maduro “vehemently denies the allegations against him.”
“If this case were to proceed to trial, it would be apparent that he has been falsely accused,” they said.
Both have pleaded not guilty in a criminal case first brought six years ago against numerous alleged co-conspirators. They face potential life prison sentences if a jury agrees that they were part of a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S.
Federal prosecutors are scheduled to file a response to the arguments later this month.
President Trump’s administration has defended the raid to capture Maduro as a “surgical law enforcement operation.” Maduro has called himself a prisoner of war and his capture a kidnapping.
U.S. prosecutors say Maduro carried out a conspiracy to move thousands of tons of cocaine into the U.S. by colluding with Venezuelan law enforcement to help drug kingpins.
Maduro has remained defiant. On Sunday, he posted pictures of himself from prison on social media, saying he was “standing firm.”
“I send these photos as a small gift to all my grandsons and granddaughters, to the boys and girls, and to all the noble people who love us,” he wrote.
“I want you to know that we stand firm, with our hearts full of your love, that love that reaches us transformed into prayer, into constant action, into solidarity and true support. Infinite thanks for every word, for every gesture, for every blessing,” he went on to say.
On the Telegram messaging service, he added, “We will remain strong, calm and confident: God is with us. God will provide. Venezuela will rise again,” French news agency AFP reported.
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