As the world grapples with the highly unusual military seizure by the US of another world leader, the criminal case against Maduro will work through the justice system much like any other filed in New York, based upon the evidence and US law. After taking office in 2013, he allegedly allowed the drug trade to "flourish for his own benefit, for the benefit of members of his ruling regime, and for the benefit of his family members". Prosecutors also allege that in 2017 he worked to ship hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to Miami, and "spoke with his drug trafficking partners about, among other things, shipping low-quality cocaine to New York because it could not be sold in Miami, arranging a 500-kilogram shipment of cocaine to be unloaded from a cargo container near Miami, and using scrap metal containers to smuggle cocaine into the ports of New York".
Published at: 2026-01-05 22:09:03
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