Before his fall from power, two decades of U.S. documents detail Maduro’s criminal conduct

By John Solomon | Just the News

Maduro's 2020 indictment laid out evidence of how Venezuela's dictator ran a brutal drug cartel that addicted and poisoned Americans.

The daring U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro on Saturday immediately launched Democrats and some U.S. enemies such as Iran and Cuba into a tirade, suggesting that the arrest of an indicted world leader was somehow illegal and that one of the Western hemisphere’s most brutal leaders deserved sympathy.

But two decades of U.S. documents produced under Democrat and Republican presidents and reviewed by Just the News chronicle Maduro’s thuggish, illegal and lethal behavior toward the United States as well as his alliances with enemies like drug-trafficking leftist guerrillas, rogue regimes like Iran and terror groups like Hezbollah.

Even former Democrat President Joe Biden – who eased sanctions on Maduro in a failed effort to reboot relations with Venezuela – had to admit he was an “illegitimate” leader of his country after Maduro declared himself the victor of a 2024 election that international observers insisted was won by the opposition.

“Maduro clearly lost the 2024 presidential election and has no right to claim the presidency,” then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared a year ago this month.

The stolen election was the latest in a two-decade rampage by Maduro and his socialist cronies.

For instance, a federal grand jury in Manhattan provided compelling evidence in 2020 that Maduro and his top leadership were running a brutal narco-terrorism cartel aligned with Colombia’s notorious FARC guerrilla traffickers that addicted Americans to cocaine and opened the door for them to be poisoned by more powerful opioids such as fentanyl shipped from Mexico.

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