A network of leftist groups rapidly coordinated to protest President Donald Trump’s extradition of dictator Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to a new report.

The same network continued its coordinated protests as Maduro appeared in court Monday, pleading not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges.

“The U.S. has no political or legal authority to kidnap a foreign head of state,” Manolo De Los Santos, founder of The People’s Forum and a key leader in the network, posted on X Monday.

BREAKING: President Maduro’s first statement in a U.S. court today has been: “I am the President of Venezuela and I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured in my home in Caracas.”

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Asra Nomani, a researcher who focuses on leftist movements, described the network in an analysis for Fox News Digital Saturday.

A coalition of openly socialist and communist groups responded to news of Maduro’s ouster in real time, Nomani noted, mobilizing protests in an estimated 100 cities by Saturday.

The same Marxist groups behind the pro-Maduro protests have also spearheaded leftist activism in the U.S. for years, she noted, including responses to the killing of George Floyd in 2020 and the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023.

“For years, this cell has fomented anti-American hate in the U.S. under the cover of ‘anti-war’ protests, rallying activists after the 9/11 attacks to condemn the U.S. response, appropriating ‘anti-racism’ protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, marching with Antifa agitators, organizing antisemitic campus encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas and activating ‘working-class Americans to support Maduro and his regime in a war against........

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