US Unseals Explosive Indictment Against Maduro and Wife
The US unseals a federal indictment accusing Venezuela’s president of narco-terrorism, cocaine trafficking and weapons charges after a dramatic arrest.
A federal indictment charging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, his wife, and four others with a narco-terrorism conspiracy and other charges was unsealed Saturday morning by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, just as U.S. forces dramatically apprehended the couple in their own country.
The indictment states, “For more than 25 years, Venezuelan leaders have abused their positions of public trust and corrupted once-legitimate institutions to import tons of cocaine into the United States.”
The indictment was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. In addition to Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the indictment also names Maduro’s son, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, and Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores.
The indictment states, “Nicolás Maduro Moros, the defendant, is now the head of a corrupt, illegitimate regime that has for decades used state power to protect and promote illicit activities, including drug trafficking.”
“That drug trafficking has enriched and empowered the Venezuelan political and military elite, including Diosdado Cabello Rondón, the defendant, the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, and Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, the defendant, the former Minister of Interior and Justice.”
Guerrero is identified as the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
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In addition to the narco-terrorism conspiracy charge, the indictment includes four other criminal charges: conspiracy to import cocaine; possession of machine guns and destructive devices; and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky strongly criticized the attack on Venezuela and its rationale. Massey wrote in a post on the social media site X, "If this action were constitutionally sound, the Attorney General wouldn't be tweeting that he arrested the president of a sovereign country and his wife for possessing firearms in violation of a 1934 US gun law."
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