U.S. charges Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, others with drug trafficking

 

This was the biggest BOOM of the day – for me that is – and I obviously forgot to share it earlier.  This is going to lead to a lot more unveiling and arrests…

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Sommer Brokaw & Daniel Uria

March 26 (UPI) — U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced drug trafficking charges on Thursday against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other senior regime officials.

The Justice Department indictment says Maduro “helped manage and ultimately lead” a smuggling organization known as the Cartel of the Suns. The cartel sought to “flood the United States with cocaine and inflict the drug’s harmful and addictive effects on users in this country,” the charges say.

Prosecutors say Maduro and cartel members “prioritized using cocaine as a weapon against America” and imported as much into the United States as possible.

According to the indictment, Maduro’s regime allowed Colombian revolutionaries to use Venezuelan airspace to fly cocaine through Central America to destinations in North America.

Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the scheme has been going for two decades.

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