"Federal prosecutors have charged Maduro and five co-defendants with narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine into the U.S. and conspiracy to possess machine guns and explosives. For years, federal prosecutors have held that Venezuelan drug traffickers in partnership with Maduro, a bevy of other top government officials and with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC are using cocaine as a weapon against America."
"For more than 20 years, Maduro and a number of high-ranking colleagues allegedly conspired with the FARC, causing tons of cocaine to enter and devastate American communities, then-Attorney General William Barr said in a March 2020 news release. This sprawling conspiracy has its tentacles spread throughout the highest levels of the Venezuelan government and military, prosecutors say and is known as the Cartel de Los Soles, or the Cartel of the Suns."
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife are en route to New York to appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom next week on gun and narcotics trafficking charges. The counts against Maduro, his wife Cilia Flores and his son were filed by superseding indictment on Jan. 3 in a case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District for almost 15 years. Maduro has been a named defendant since at least March 2020, and U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein presides. Federal prosecutors charged Maduro and five co-defendants with narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to possess machine guns and explosives. Prosecutors allege Maduro and high-level Venezuelan officials conspired with the FARC for more than 20 years, operating the Cartel de Los Soles and sending tons of cocaine into American communities.
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