Establishment news outlets like CNN, the Associated Press, and the New York Times have embraced a new narrative about Venezuela's Cartel de los Soles: It doesn't actually exist. Unmentioned in the coverage is the Biden administration's 2023 extradition of a former Venezuelan spy chief whose "leadership of the Cártel de Los Soles inflicted immeasurable pain and suffering" on Venezuelans and Americans, as the Department of Justice put it at the time.
The claim that Cartel de los Soles is a nonexistent entity has taken hold after the State Department designated Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization led by Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. As President Donald Trump warned Maduro to "stop sending poison to our country" through the narcotics trade or face military action, his critics in the media downplayed the threat posed by Cartel de los Soles, arguing it is a leaderless network or that it doesn’t exist at all.
https://freebeacon.com/media/biden-admin-prosecuted-leader-of-venezuelan-drug-cartel-that-mainstream-media-now-say-doesnt-exist/
