THE GUARDIAN: Venezuelan president accused of running a ‘corrupt’ government fuelled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded US with cocaine
A newly unsealed US justice department indictment accuses the captured Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fuelled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the US with thousands of tons of cocaine.
The arrest of Maduro and his wife in a stunning military operation early on Saturday in Venezuela sets the stage for a major test for US prosecutors as they seek to secure a conviction in a Manhattan courtroom against the longtime leader of the oil-rich South American nation.
The attorney general, Pam Bondi, said in a post on X that Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts”. » | Associated Press | Sunday, January 4, 2026
King Don and his regime have got a nerve to accuse Nicolás Maduro and his wife of corruption! Is Dementia Don trying to say that he and his cronies cannot be accused of the same? Further, as for drug-trafficking, I don’t believe it. And you shouldn’t either. In any case, if King Don cared about drug-trafficking, he wouldn’t have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras from jail. — © Mark Alexander
