Venezuelan judges work from abroad and await Maduro's ouster
The day after his appointment to Venezuela's supreme court, Miguel Angel Martin learned that another newly named judge had been arrested by the government's intelligence service agents.
The arrested judge, Angel Zerpa, faced charges of treason.
Martin, Zerpa and 31 other judges had been appointed by the opposition-led National Assembly, which said the existing high court was illegally stacked with judges loyal to authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.
Almost immediately, chaos ensued. The supreme court backed by Maduro ordered that a military tribunal try all the new judges for treason.
Fearing bodily harm, Martin, his wife, their 23-year-old son and their two teenage daughters went into hiding within hours of his colleague's arrest in July 2017.
"I thought of my family,
