With all eyes on Trump bedeviled by China virus crisis, Nicolas Maduro was in for a surprise

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March 27, 2020
With all eyes on Trump bedeviled by China virus crisis, Nicolas Maduro was in for a surprise
By Monica Showalter

Like a rat who thought the big orange cat was preoccupied, Nicolas Maduro soon learned the hard the way that the cat was ready to spring.

According to Buzzfeed:

    The Trump administration on Thursday charged Nicolás Maduro and 14 other high-ranking Venezuelan officials with narcoterrorism, drug trafficking, corruption, and other crimes, accusing them of using cocaine as a "weapon" to "flood the US."

    Two federal indictments unsealed Thursday allege that Maduro and former and current officials in his regime partnered with dissidents of FARC — a violent rebel group in Colombia — for 20 years to engage in drug trafficking, causing "tons of cocaine to enter and devastate American communities."

    The Department of Justice alleged that Maduro and other officials "expressly intended to flood the United States with cocaine in order to undermine the health and wellbeing of our nation."

    "Maduro very deliberately deployed cocaine as a weapon," US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Thursday. "As alleged, the defendants betrayed the Venezuelan people and corrupted Venezuelan institutions to line their pockets with drug money.”

Other than that doozie about 'dissidents of FARC' to describe the world's most brutal narcoterrorists who tried for 55 years to overthrow the Colombian government, the Buzzfeed report conveys the sleaze and slime of the Maduro regime, which is basically just about drug dealing these days, whatever was left of the Venezuelan state in the wake of socialism is pretty well hollowed out. The oil's ruined. The talent has fled. The crops are destroyed. The property rights are gone. There's no toilet paper. It's just hell on earth, which in fact is the perfect playground for Maduro's buddies in FARC, same way the Taliban drug dealers took over Afghanistan when that hellhole became a failed state, or those Kyat-chewing pirates called the shots in failed-state Somalia. It happens every time.

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