US Accuses Venezuela’s Maduro of Drug Trafficking, Deploys Military Forces to Caribbean

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–Researched and Written by Samantha Lee—

On March 26, Attorney General of the United States William Barr announced that the Department of Justice would charge Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with narco-terrorism conspiracy and offer a reward for $15 million for information leading to Maduro’s arrest. Days later, on April 1, Donald Trump announced with Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, the largest deployment of American troops to the Caribbean in decades as part of an anti-drug-trafficking effort. Maduro denounced the American government’s actions in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

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