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Feds Charge Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro With Drug Trafficking

‘NARCO-TERRORISM’

Maduro and other top officials were slapped with narco-terrorism charges for allegedly facilitating the importation of tons of cocaine into the U.S.

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The Department of Justice on Thursday unveiled narco-terrorism charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior government officials, alleging they participated in the country’s illegal drug trafficking system and collaborated with a leftist Colombian guerrilla group to export cocaine to the United States. 

The president, along with five other Venezuelan...

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