March 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced drug trafficking charges on Thursday against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other senior regime officials.
The Justice Department indictment says Maduro "helped manage and ultimately lead" a smuggling organization known as the Cartel of the Suns. The cartel sought to "flood the United States with cocaine and inflict the drug's harmful and addictive effects on users in this country," the charges say.