Panama City.- Chavismo awakened and officially became a terrorist organization The United Nations and its propaganda agencies have been forced to work to reject the qualification that puts a noose around the neck of its senior leaders.
At that time they also denied the existence of A Huge diaspora (Nine million Venezuelans fled its clutches), Imprisonment of political prisoners (There are currently 884, according to Foro Penal) and The largest embezzlement in human history (600 thousand million dollars disappeared from state coffers). Nothing new.
“We categorically, firmly and absolutely reject everything that is new and ridiculous marco rubio trick, “Which classifies the non-existent Sun Cartel as a terrorist organization, thus republishing a notorious and despicable lie to justify an illegitimate and illegal intervention against Venezuela under the classic American formula for regime change,” the dictatorship said in a statement.
Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez added: “They are ridiculous, they repeat and repeat, and that is why they go from failure to failure. If Marco Rubio wants to fight drug trafficking, he should start in Ecuador.”
On the one hand, the ruling party received help from its Cuban allies. On the other hand, the democratic opposition interpreted it both positively and negatively that this decision was permitted International arrests and military and intelligence measures.
Only those close to the very moderate, oppositional minority and collaborators doubt its existence The cartel has been talked about in Venezuela since at least 2007.
In the debate over the Sun Cartel, Chavismo has an advantage: It’s not the classic Mexican-style cartel, like Sinaloa or Nueva Generation, With a big boss like Chapo Guzman.
CS is a network of networks within a corrupt system, made up of Chavista generals and the Bolivarian hierarchy Who have been trafficking cocaine for two decades under the guise of revolution.
Impunity has reached such a high in Venezuela, they have expanded their business to include illegal mining (gold from Arco Minero in Gran Sabana is one source of funding for Chavismo) and gasoline smuggling.
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Its main partner in drug trafficking into the United States and Europe has always been the Colombian guerrilla, in principle frac And then National Liberation Army (ELN) and various dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Even in internal rebel conflicts along the so-called corridor to the Caribbean, the Venezuelan army took sides during the war clashes in Apure in 2021 and supported the “Elenos” and Segunda Marquetalea dissidents.
“It is not a hierarchical or ideological group. Its structure consists of a diffuse network of cells installed within the major military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force and National Guard, from the lowest to the highest ranks.
Other branches of the state embedded in the criminal ecosystem have also been identified, including police forces, the executive branch and various public officials,” explained InSight Crime, a prestigious research organization that studies organized crime on the continent.
The name of this mafia (the sun is the insignia worn by military personnel on their uniforms to indicate their rank) refers directly to the generals or high-ranking officials of the revolution, specifically those who keep Maduro on the throne of the Miraflores Palace.
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More than 2,000 generals, more than all NATO generals, share a large portion of the country’s millionaire companies. They do not support Chavismo, they are the backbone of the Bolivarian Revolution.
At the head of them, according to Washington, will be Maduro himself, which is why his reward has increased to $50 million. In his family environment there were more than just suspicions: two of his nephews were known for drug use, Efrain Campo and Francisco Flores de FreitasHe fell into a trap set by the Haiti Drug Enforcement Administration in 2015, when they intended to transport 800 kilograms of coca to the United States.
They were transported to New York, sentenced to 18 years in prison, but were released seven years later in a prisoner exchange with Caracas. The two young men came to use the presidential ramp at Maiquetia Airport to make drug deals.
The names that the Department of Justice has linked to CS are: diosdado poetry, The Minister of the Interior and second-in-command of the revolution, who was directly accused by Chavez’s bodyguard, Lemsi Salazar, of being the leader of this mafia; And the public Vladimir Padrino Lopezthe main commander of the regular men. The value of the first “head” is $25 million, and the value of the head of the godfather is estimated at $15 million.
Other names involved include those of Michael Moreno, former president of the Supreme Court; “Chicken” Hugo Carvajal, the head of intelligence and counterintelligence under Chávez, was arrested in Spain and extradited to the United States, where he awaits sentencing in the coming weeks; and former General Claver Alcala, who is also detained in the United States after trying to join rebel forces in Colombia.
It was former judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, Eladio Aponte, who identified Alcala as the drug czar. “In Venezuela, it doesn’t matter if the president (Chavez) doesn’t know about it,” Aponte added after admitting that he was forced to release a commander and his shipment of cocaine. Colombian drug trafficker Walid Makled also directly targeted Alcala Cordones, who was sentenced in the United States to 21 years in prison.
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Another Supreme Court judge, Luis Velázquez Alvarray, had condemned years ago, long before the current crisis, the Sun Cartel’s exploitation of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) facilities to set up laboratories for processing and storing cocaine.
Former prosecutor Zir Mundaray had first-hand knowledge of the workings of the Sun Cartel during his time as number two in the prosecutor’s office.
He has no doubt about its dimensions, as he explained to Los Angeles Nacion: “It is very real. It has destroyed democratic bases and reshaped power in Venezuela. CS is the greatest threat to regional stability.”