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06.01.2026.

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Shock twist in the Maduro case: Americans back down"

The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped a key and controversial claim that the Trump administration had used for years against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—the allegation that he is the leader of a drug cartel known as the Cartel de los Soles.

Izvor: The New York Times

Shock twist in the Maduro case: Americans back down"
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That allegation formed the basis of the 2020 indictment and served as justification for declaring the group a terrorist organization, first by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2025, and later by the State Department under the leadership of Marc Rubio, reports The New York Times.

However, experts on Latin America had long warned that the Cartel de los Soles is not a real organization, but rather a colloquial term coined by Venezuelan media in the 1990s to describe corrupt officials profiting from drug trafficking.

It now appears that the Department of Justice has accepted this fact, publishing on Saturday, following Maduro’s arrest, a revised indictment that quietly corrects the previous claims.

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