The facts, familiar though they may be, deserve repeating: On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and removed from the country following a large-scale U.S. military operation involving elite forces and months of planning. They appeared Monday in a New York court, facing charges including narcoterrorism, drug trafficking and weapons offenses, and both pleaded not guilty. Maduro declared he was still the legitimate president of Venezuela and called himself a “prisoner of war.” The hearing ended amid tense exchanges in the courtroom and protests outside, with the next court date set for March 17.Jan. 3 resonated beyond Venezuela. Thirty-six years earlier, on the same date, Manuel Noriega — Panama’s dictator — was taken into U.S. custody after surrendering at the Vatican’s diplomatic mission, formally ending the country’s military regime. The coincidence has invited an avalanche of historical analogies. Two authoritarian leaders accused in U.S. courts of narcotics trafficking and organized crime. Two governments subjected t