DOJ charges Venezuela’s Maduro with narcoterrorism

By Jerry Dunleavy

Published March 26, 2020 3:28pm ET

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DOJ charges Venezuela’s Maduro with narcoterrorism — Nicolas Maduro announced that he is increasing Venezuela's minimum wage by 40%. But seeing as Venezuela's inflation rate already increased by at least 1,000% last year, Maduro's gambit is only likely to increase the already-catastrophic suffering of his people. | Ariana Cubillos/Associated Press

Attorney General William Barr announced narcoterrorism charges against Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas Maduro for his role in facilitating the global drug trade in coordination with the Colombia-based terrorist group known as the FARC.

“Maduro and these other defendants betrayed the Venezuelan people,” Barr said on Thursday. “While the Venzuelan people suffer, this cabal lines their pockets. And this has to come to an end.”

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