Torture Charges Added to the U.S. Case Against Maduro

U.S. authorities have added torture charges to their case against former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, NPR reports, layering a new allegation onto a prosecution that already accused him of drug trafficking. NPR describes the addition as ramping up pressure on Maduro, whom it calls an ousted authoritarian leader already fighting the trafficking allegations. Adding a count to an existing case is one way to widen a prosecution's theory rather than close it, and the pressure on a former head of state appears to be the reported point of the move.