Caribbean Politicians Accused of Facilitating Maduro's US Cocaine Imports into the US

Buried in the 25 page indictment unsealed in US courts on Saturday are alarming allegations against unnamed corrupt Caribbean politicians who facilitated the transshipment of cocaine from Venezuela to the streets of the United States.

The complaint, which was prepared in 2020, in describing the scope of the operations by Maduro and his co-accused to bring 200 to 250 tons of cocaine into the US, noted: “So, too, were politicians along the "Caribbean route" corrupted by cocaine traffickers, who would pay them for protection from arrest and to allow favored traffickers to operate with impunity as they trafficked cocaine from Venezuela north towards the United States.”

While the indictment does not name any of the corrupt Caribbean politicians, it is believed that there are sealed indictments against at least three Caribbean leaders who are culpable in the cocaine trade conspiracy with Maduro.

Today, Nicolas Maduro sits in a New York detention facility awaiting arraignment in US courts during the week on four counts related to narco terrorism, cocaine importation, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices. 

The man who ruled Venezuela since the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013 was snatched along with his wife from their home in Caracas, Venezuela in what US authorities describe as a daring raid by United States Special forces.

At this time there is an expectation that the US government will move against those individuals who are believed to have aided and abetted the cocaine flow into the country.

Each year, according to the US government the cocaine trade brought in over US $5 billion to US $10 billion to Maduro and his cronies. “Thus, at every step--relying on the producers in Colombia, 9 transporters and distributors in Venezuela, and recipients and re-distributors on transshipment points north-the traffickers enriched themselves and their corrupt benefactors who protected and aided them,” according to the indictment.