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Venezuelan Leader Maduro Is Charged in the U.S. With Drug Trafficking – The New York Times

By Thomas A. Smith

WASHINGTON President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was indicted in the United States on Thursday in a narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking conspiracy in which prosecutors said he led a violent drug cartel even as he amassed power.

The indictment of a putative head of state was highly unusual and served as an escalation of the Trump administration s campaign to pressure Mr. Maduro to leave office after his widely disputed re-election in 2018. Mr. Maduro has led Venezuela s economy into shambles and prompted an exodus of millions of people into neighboring countries.

via www.nytimes.com