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The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
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 ...
The short answer: day‑to‑day authority in Caracas is being exercised by Vice‑President Delcy Rodríguez, who was sworn in as acting president after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, but real power remains disp...
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 —...
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 short answer: Venezuela has not been fully "seized" as a unitary, settled possession by the United States, but it has undergone an unprecedented external intervention in which U.S. forces captured...
The clearest, documented legal actions linking U.S. institutions and Venezuelan criminal networks are U.S. Department of Justice indictments charging Venezuelan leaders and their alleged criminal affi...
Nicolás Maduro, long the de facto leader of Venezuela, was captured and flown to the United States in a U.S. military operation on Jan. 3, 2026, according to multiple news reports and U.S. statements ...
The United States Department of Justice has filed multiple high‑profile criminal actions charging Venezuelan officials and intermediaries with narcotics and money‑laundering offenses, most prominently...
The unsealed U.S. indictment accuses President Nicolás Maduro and a circle of senior Venezuelan officials of directing, protecting and profiting from large-scale cocaine shipments to the United States...
The "Cartel of the Suns" is a label used since the early 1990s to describe alleged links between Venezuelan military officers, senior officials and illicit trafficking; the name references the sun ins...
The U.S. Department of Justice’s indictments against Nicolás Maduro and allied Venezuelan officials center on narco-terrorism and a suite of drug‑and‑weapons offenses—alongside related corruption and ...
The most consequential investigations tying Nicolás Maduro or his inner circle to drug trafficking are U.S. criminal indictments and sanctions — notably the 2020 Department of Justice/SDNY and DEA/HSI...
Multiple U.S. actors — chiefly the Department of Defense (U.S. military under the White House), law‑enforcement agencies led by the Department of Justice including the FBI, Homeland Security Investiga...
The 2020 U.S. Department of Justice indictments accused President Nicolás Maduro and 14 current or former Venezuelan officials of running a narcotics-trafficking enterprise — the so‑called “Cartel de ...