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The US has accused the Maduro regime of maintaining a narco-corruption structure that finances regime activity, and has targeted individuals and networks involved in this structure.
There is no verified, public evidence that U.S. senators accepted direct kickbacks from Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro based on the reporting provided: claims that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hug...
The legal and congressional oversight around routine covert counterterrorism and counter‑narcotics raids typically rests on a long‑standing statutory and oversight framework that mandates classified n...
The unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictments accuse Nicolás Maduro and top Venezuelan officials of operating a state-sponsored drug-trafficking enterprise that partnered with violent transnational...
The Justice Department’s portrayal of the “Cartel de los Soles” shifted from a centerpiece allegation in a 2020 grand-jury indictment that labeled it a formal drug-trafficking organization led by Nico...
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. prosecutions of foreign leaders have established evidentiary links to drug trafficking through discrete mixes of witness testimony, financial paper trails, seized assets and operational details t...
Reporting collected for this analysis yields no publicly disclosed, verifiable evidence that Venezuelan state actors or the so-called “Cartel de los Soles” have directly made campaign contributions to...
Across the newly unsealed U.S. indictment and contemporaneous reporting, a consistent pattern emerges in which prosecutors portray Nicolás Maduro as the linchpin of a decades‑long, state‑enabled narco...
Reporting indicates that frustration inside the Trump team over Nicolás Maduro’s public dancing and perceived nonchalance was cited by some journalists as one factor that helped convince U.S. official...
U.S. prosecutors ground the superseding indictment against Nicolás Maduro in a mix of past criminal convictions, recorded meetings between DEA confidential sources and Maduro’s relatives, alleged tran...
Nicolás Maduro’s twelve-plus years in power are documented by multiple international outlets as a transition from contested, electoral rule to a closed, repressive regime: international observers, reg...
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...