Venezuelan political dissident Pedro Rojas left the federal courthouse after exchanging...

Venezuelan political dissident Pedro Rojas left the federal courthouse after exchanging words with Maduro at the end of the arraignment hearing. Credit: Newsday/Janon Fisher

Venezuelan political dissident Pedro Rojas left the federal courthouse after exchanging words with Maduro at the end of the arraignment hearing.

"Now, you will face the real judge," Rojas told the South American leader from the gallery of the courtroom as he was led away in leg shackles.

"I am a man of God," Maduro responded. "I am a prisoner of war."

Rojas said he had been imprisoned in Venezuela for his opposition to the Maduro regime.

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