{"id":144981,"date":"2026-02-27T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/27\/maduros-counsel-says-government-is-lsquooutright-forbidding-payment-for-legal-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:48:10","slug":"maduros-counsel-says-government-is-lsquooutright-forbidding-payment-for-legal-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/27\/maduros-counsel-says-government-is-lsquooutright-forbidding-payment-for-legal-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro’s Counsel Says Government Is ‘Outright Forbidding Payment’ for Legal Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barry Pollack argued that his Maduro will not be able to receive a fair defense against the narco-terrorism conspiracy case the U.S .has brought against him, if the U.S. government continues to block Venezuela from paying his legal fees.<\/p>\n

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Barry Pollack argued that his Maduro will not be able to receive a fair defense against the narco-terrorism conspiracy case the U.S .has brought against him, if the U.S. government continues to block Venezuela from paying his legal fees.<\/p>\n

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Barry Pollack argued that his Maduro will not be able to receive a fair defense against the narco-terrorism conspiracy case the U.S .has brought against him, if the U.S. government continues to block Venezuela from paying his legal fees. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Barry Pollack argued that his Maduro will not be able to receive a fair defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/legal-news-XIqgLN.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}