US Justice reveals the alleged agreement between Iván Márquez and Nicolás Maduro to traffic drugs
The illegal inauguration of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela last Friday, January 10, has aroused the rejection of a large part of the international community, including the United States itself, a country that currently has an ongoing investigation against the dictator for drug trafficking. .
By week.com
As a result of this investigation, and with the aim of putting pressure on the leader of the Venezuelan regime prior to the swearing in of power, the United States Department of State increased the reward for his capture, which rose to 25 million dollars. for anyone who provides information about his whereabouts.
However, among the reasons to increase its capture A report handled by the United States Attorney’s Office and the Southern District of New York prosecutor’s office would have influenced about the crimes that Maduro would have committed such as narcoterrorism, corruption, drug trafficking and other crimes.
There is mention of a close relationship that the Cartel of the Suns would have had, which would be led by Maduro, according to the US justice system, and the FARC guerrilla, with whom they would have organized the shipment of drugs to the North American country in exchange for weapons.
This is broken down in the report of the Southern District Court of New York, in which directly link Nicolás Maduro and the FARCdue to a “narcoterrorism partnership over the past 20 years,” as U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman put it, in 2020.
What does the report say about the association with the FARC?
According to the accusation pending before the United States justice system, Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, Hugo Armando Carvajal, Cliver Antonio Alcalá, Luciano Marín, alias Iván Márquez, and Seuxis Paucis Hernández, alias Jesús Santrich, “participated in a corrupt narco-terrorist conspiracy.” and violent between the Venezuelan Los Soles cartel and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.”
The report highlights that Maduro helped “manage and ultimately lead the Los Soles Cartel as it gained power in Venezuela.”. Under his leadership, this organization sought to enrich its members and flood the United States with cocaine.
For them, he allied himself with the FARC, with whom he “negotiated shipments of several tons of cocaine,” in exchange for providing “military-grade weapons.” He also notes that “he requested assistance from the FARC leaders to train a group of unauthorized militias that functioned as a unit of the armed forces for the Los Soles Cartel.”
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