US indicts Nicolás Maduro and other top Venezuelan leaders for drug trafficking

[Nagelfar]

Trending now, apparently Trump admin. is charging pres. Maduro and other top officials with trafficking drugs to the U.S.

Apparently, there are multi-million dollar bounties on their heads through the Narcotics Rewards program

 

[G_Chem]

Probably cuz it’s his top competitor..

-GC

 

[S.J.B.]

US indicts Nicolás Maduro and other top Venezuelan leaders for drug trafficking
Julian Borger and Joe Parkin Daniels
The Guardian
March 26th, 2020

The US has charged the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and 14 members of his inner circle with drug trafficking, “narco-terrorism”, corruption and money laundering, and offered a $15m reward for information leading to Maduro’s capture and prosecution.

Unveiling the indictment, the attorney general, William Barr, said the Venezuelan leadership collaborated with a dissident faction of the former Colombian guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, operating on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, which Barr described as an “extremely violent terrorist organization”.

“They’ve obtained the support of the Maduro regime, who is allowing them to use Venezuela as a safe haven from which they can continue to conduct their cocaine trafficking and their armed insurgency,” Barr said.

Alongside Maduro, Venezuela’s vice-president for the economy, Venezuela’s defence minister, and the supreme court’s chief justice are among the list of 15 current and former officials who have been indicted.

The state department announced a reward of $15m for “information related to” Maduro, and $10m each for information on Diosdado Cabello, the head of the national constituent assembly, and three others: Hugo Carvajal, former head of Venezuela’s military intelligence, Clíver Alcalá, a retired army major general, and Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah, the country’s industry minister.

Read the full story here.

 

[S.J.B.]

The justice department statement on the indictments said: “Maduro and the other defendants expressly intended to flood the United States with cocaine in order to undermine the health and wellbeing of our nation. Maduro very deliberately deployed cocaine as a weapon.”

Have we gone back in time to the 1980s?

 

[S.J.B.]

Venezuela says US drug charges against Maduro show 'desperation'
Al Jazeera
March 26th, 2020

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Thursday that drug trafficking charges by the United States against President Nicolas Maduro announced earlier in the day showed the "desperation" of the "Washington elite".

Arreaza said the decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to offer rewards for the capture of Maduro and other high-ranking officials accused of drug trafficking show the administration's "obsession" with Venezuela, which he said was due to its desire to reap "electoral returns" in the US state of Florida.

Trump was "once more attacking the Venezuelan people and its democratic institutions, using a new form of coup d'etat based on miserable, vulgar and unfounded accusations," Arreaza added.

In an extremely rare criminal case against a foreign head of state, the US Department of Justice indicted Maduro and several of his top ministers after accusing him of leading a cocaine-trafficking group called "The Cartel of the Suns".

The US Department of State offered a reward of up to $15m for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Maduro, whose country has been convulsed by years of a deep economic crisis and political upheaval.

Read the full story here.

 

[neversickanymore]

might want to check Miraflores Palace, Seems to be the place he might be. So how do I get my $$ before its given to some snitch in league with the person that came up with the brilliant plan of offering millions to track down the president of a country.. \ So anyway where do I get my cash. laughing.. how do we not know where a ;president of a country can be found?