NEW: The Justice Department announced charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — over an alleged conspiracy to flood the U.S with cocaine through a drug trafficking network.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 12, 2020. He is the subject of a new federal indictment.Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 12, 2020. He is the subject of a new federal indictment.
Attorney General William Barr announced the charges at the Justice Department in Washington with some officials in attendance and others connected via teleconference — precautions taken amid the coronavirus pandemic. The charges involved some 15 defendants between Maduro and other political and military leaders in Venezuela. They emerged in superseding indictments from federal authorities around the United States, Barr said.Venezuela is permitting Colombians linked with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army — known by its Spanish initials,"FARC" — to use its airspace to fly cocaine north through Central America to destinations in North America, Barr alleged.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman said the scheme between the Colombians and Venezuelans had been operating for some two decades and represented a deliberate strategy by Maduro's regime to"flood the United States with cocaine." The announcement of the charges followed months of pressure by President Trump's administration on Maduro's regime, which the United States considers illegitimate following an election not deemed copacetic by many world powers.
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