Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were indicted in federal court shortly after their capture and extraction from Venezuela on Jan. 3, marking the latest milestone of developing legal and military action that began more than five years ago.
“Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States,” Bondi said on X.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
Filed by U.S. Attorney John Clayton, the indictment lists Maduro and Flores as defendants alongside Diosdado Cabello Rondón, minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, the vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and a member of the Venezuelan armed forces; Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, a Venezuelan politician and former member of the armed forces; Maduro’s son, Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra; and the leader of Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores. …