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Maduro, & 14 Venezuelan Officials Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Drug Trafficking & Other Criminal Charges; The Venezuela of the Castros & Díaz-Canel
The United States Department of Justice announced today that Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 current and former Venezuelan Officials were charged with narco-terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking and other criminal charges. Maduro and other high ranking Venezuelan officials partnered with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) to use cocaine as a weapon to “flood” the United States. The State Department is offering up to a 15 million dollar reward for Nicolás Maduro's arrest and conviction, and up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Diosdado Cabello Rondón, Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, and Clíver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, and up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Luciano Marín Arango.
Venezuelan human rights defender and attorney Tamara Suju on March 19, 2020 in her article in El Nacional, "The Venezuela of the Castros and Díaz-Canel" put into historical context Venezuela's criminal regime.
"The criminal structure of Chavismo-Madurismo, and those members of the national armed forces that allowed it, will pass into history as the greatest shame and betrayal our country has seen in all its modern history. They not only denied two generations of Venezuelans the opportunity to improve their lives and live in peace, but they handed over the homeland to the oldest dictatorship in the continent in exchange for help remaining in power by controlling its people, persecuting, spying, repressing, torturing and humiliating its adversaries and sparking the current biblical exodus out of Venezuela."
Jackson Diehl in The Washington Post reported on May 24, 2015 in his article "A drug cartel’s power in Venezuela" that "Cuba’s communist regime and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah have been cut in on the trafficking [by the Venezuelans]."
Indicted co-conspirator Diosdado Cabello with Raul Castro and Bruno Rodriguez
It is important to revisit communist Cuba's history of involvement in drug trafficking.
The Cuban dictatorship was placed on the list of state terror sponsors on March 1, 1982, after the U.S. State Department confirmed that the Cuban government was using a narcotics ring to funnel both arms and cash to the Colombian M19 terrorist group then battling to overthrow Colombia’s democratic government.
In the 1991 Frontline documentary, "Cuba and Cocaine", U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Commander Jeff Karonis, stated, "We would observe in the middle of the day an air drop going on inside Cuban waters. The scenario would be for a small twin-engine airplane with maybe 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of cocaine to fly over Cuba, drop the drugs to a predesignated rendezvous point to several boats. Then it would exit back down off Cuba, and many times a Cuban military vessel would be in the immediate vicinity, right on scene with them.''
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