"It accuses the captured Venezuelan leader of running a state-sponsored drug terror network for years. Maduro, it says, collaborated with the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua, which now operates throughout Latin America, as well as with the Colombian FARC guerrilla group and the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, to smuggle cocaine into the US and enrich himself personally. The indictment described Venezuela as being systematically developed into a hub for international cocaine trafficking, with state aircraft and even the presidential hangar being used to transport cocaine."
"He quickly rose to become union leader at the local transport company. The fact that he had previously spent a year attending political training courses in Cuba on a scholarship stood him in good stead. His political leanings probably also prompted him to join the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement founded by Hugo Chavez. Chavez himself was in prison at the time, having recently led a bloody military coup in Venezuela that failed."
U.S. prosecutors filed a 25-page indictment accusing Nicolas Maduro of leading a state-sponsored drug trafficking and terror network that smuggled cocaine into the United States. The indictment alleges collaboration with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the Colombian FARC and Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, and accuses Maduro of enriching himself personally. Venezuela is described as systematically transformed into an international cocaine hub, with state aircraft and the presidential hangar used to move shipments. Images show Maduro, 63, in prison clothing being taken to a New York court. Maduro rose from a Caracas bus driver and union leader to parliamentarian, foreign minister and vice president under Hugo Chavez.
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