During the arraignment of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday, Jan. 5, President Donald Trump‘s Department of Justice quietly dropped a claim about Maduro’s alleged cartel involvement.
The DOJ’s January 2025 indictment accused Maduro of heading up “a patronage system run by those at the top —referred to as the Cartel de Los Soles or Cartel of the Suns, a reference to the sun insignia affixed to the uniforms of high-ranking Venezuelan military officials.”
However, a 2020 indictment against the Venezuelan president — which was written during Trump’s first administration — made many more explicit references to the Cartel de Los Soles as an actual cartel.
Lol. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story I always say.
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