The United States has indicted Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and other top regime officials in a narco-terrorism and drug trafficking conspiracy that aimed to “flood the United States with cocaine,” the Justice Department announced.
The department unsealed a criminal indictment against Maduro, accusing him of facilitating efforts in conjunction with a violent terrorist organization—the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)—to smuggle cocaine into the United States. The socialist leader has been charged with participating in narco-terrorism conspiracy—which carries a 20-year minimum sentence, conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, and related criminal offenses to support the drug smuggling effort.
