Among the US accusations against him was that of leading the Cartel de los Soles in drug trafficking and . The complaint was filed by the Department of Justice in 2020 and reiterated in 2025.
The Cartel de los Soles never trafficked drugs or carried out attacks. In fact, it was never a cartel. It was a creation of journalists to designate the heart of Chavismo.
Attributing drug trafficking and attacks to the Cartel de los Soles was something like associating the Music Band of the National Democratic Union, the old UDN, with cultural activities, such as concerts.
The UDN Music Band was created by the press in the second half of the last century to designate a group of fierce parliamentarians who opposed the governments of Juscelino Kubitschek and .
After Maduro’s kidnapping, the American government rewrote the indictment, defining the cartel as a corrupt and Chavismo clientelistic group. Despite this, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, repeated the accusation again on the 4th.
Blunders of this type are unlikely to alter Maduro’s judgment in the United States. He will be condemned, period.
paper tiger
The behavior of the hierarchs of the Venezuelan dictatorship after the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro showed that Chavismo was a paper tiger. In clearer language, a tiger after little mouths.
The American side of the intervention sends a signal to Latin American civil and military bureaucracies.
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