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First Lady of Venezuela since 2013
U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments in 2020s charging Nicolás Maduro and 14 current and former Venezuelan officials with running a narco‑terrorism network tied to FARC-produced cocaine and alleging ...
unsealed a four‑count superseding indictment charging with narco‑terrorism and related drug and weapons offenses, updating a long‑running case first filed in 2011 and expanded in 2025–2026 . The core ...
There is no credible reporting in the documents provided that any sitting or former U.S. senator has been criminally charged or convicted for taking money from Venezuelan cartels; major reporting inst...
No — Donald Trump is not the president of Venezuela; after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as the country’s interim or actin...
There is no credible, publicly available evidence in the reporting provided that U.S. politicians took kickbacks from Nicolás Maduro; the U.S. indictment accuses Maduro and his allies of taking bribes...
Reporting on the U.S. operation in Venezuela identifies individual U.S. senators involved in public statements and briefings — notably Lindsey Graham on Air Force One with President Trump and Marco Ru...
has produced a substantial prosecutorial record through and direct involvement by and senior officials, including a superseding indictment and public proclamations that place Venezuela at the center o...
U.S. law-enforcement documents and public reporting tie senior Venezuelan officials to networks that allegedly protected, facilitated and profited from large-scale cocaine shipments, with the most det...
U.S. actions since 2017 and especially in 2025 have singled out a set of senior Venezuelan figures and close associates for alleged ties to drug trafficking and for propping up Nicolás Maduro’s rule —...
U.S. prosecutors have built a long-running criminal case and a network of senior n officials used state power to facilitate massive cocaine shipments to , describing a patronage system nicknamed and a...
Since 2016 the United States has both criminally charged and financially sanctioned a range of Venezuelan officials and associates for alleged drug-related activity: high-profile indictments include P...
No U.S. law‑enforcement indictments or congressional reports cited in the supplied reporting officially name American politicians as targets in corruption probes tied to Venezuela; the unsealed U.S. c...
The United States carried out a large-scale military operation against Venezuela on 3 January 2026 that included airstrikes across northern Venezuela and the capture and removal of President Nicolás M...
The Justice Department’s 2020 indictment of Nicolás Maduro and the superseding 2026 indictment repeat core allegations—that Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials conspired with Colombian guerrillas a...
U.S. indictments unsealed against Nicolás Maduro and other Venezuelan officials allege extensive bribery and drug-money payments flowing from traffickers and corrupt companies to Venezuelan government...
OFAC has designated a swath of Venezuelan individuals and networks tied to illicit finance, including members of the Maduro–Flores familial network (notably Efraín “Campos”/Campo Flores and other neph...
The United States, at President Donald Trump’s direction, conducted a military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face U.S. criminal charges, an ac...
There is no complete public record in the supplied reporting that states how many U.S. citizens are currently imprisoned in Venezuela or provides a definitive list of their names; the materials review...
The SDNY superseding indictment unsealed in early January 2026 frames a multi-decade narcotics-and-corruption conspiracy and incorporates documentary and financial traces—seized assets, records of she...
Since 2024 the clearest, documentable legal actions that explicitly tie Venezuelan officials to cocaine shipments are U.S. criminal indictments and charges—most notably an expanded U.S. Department of ...