US veteran flees ahead of US trial over failed 2020 Maduro ouster plot


NEW ⁠YORK, March ⁠13 (Reuters) - A U.S. ‌military veteran awaiting trial on U.S. ​charges concerning ⁠a ⁠failed May 2020 armed ⁠incursion ‌to ⁠oust now-jailed Venezuelan President ​Nicolas ‌Maduro has absconded ⁠and ​is a fugitive, ⁠federal prosecutors said ​on Friday.

Marissel Dezcalzo, a lawyer for ⁠the defendant Jordan Goudreau, said, "We do ​not ⁠know where ​he is."

(Reporting ‌by Luc ​Cohen in New York)

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