The Immunity Gambit: A New Front in Venezuela's Ongoing Crisis Former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Felín, are seeking to have a drug trafficking indictment against them dismissed on grounds of immunity.
However, this maneuver is less about invoking diplomatic immunity than exploiting a technicality in international law.
The argument hinges on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which excludes individuals charged with "serious crimes" from immunity.