Key Highlights
- I am a decent man.
- I am still president of my country," Maduro, 63, said through an interpreter, before being cut off by US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan federal court.
- Maduro's wife Cilia Flores also pleaded not guilty.
- The next court date was set for March 17.
- Dozens of protesters, both pro- and anti-Maduro, gathered outside the courthouse before the half-hour hearing.
