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Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 11:57 AM Jul 2016

Venezuela: [President] Maduro's nephews admit to trafficking FARC drugs (Spanish)

Source: El Nuevo Herald

TRANSLATION:

Nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who face drug charges in New York, sought to make multiple drug shipments to the United States and claimed they were in possession of cocaine of high purity supplied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according court documents.

The information comes directly from the words of the nephews, Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, who expressed their aspirations in front of undercover informants Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and then to federal agents on confessions taken after they were arrested in Haiti in October 2015.

The documents introduced in court also referred to testimony given by the field itself where initially attributed the motivation of sending drugs to the United States to the need to raise funds for the last parliamentary elections.

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Read more: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/mundo/america-latina/venezuela-es/article91491757.html



Well, well, well... And this is just the tip of the iceberg too! Is anyone in this site gonna continue denying that the Chavista regime has become a narco-state at this point? Even Maduro himself and his wife haven't mentioned or acknowledged any of this, which certainly implies they knew about it all along. And it sure doesn't sound farfetched now to think that Chavismo's #2, Diosdado Cabello, is the ringleader in the whole narco-state, as claimed by a dissident former body guard of Chavez who escaped to the US about a year ago.
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Venezuela: [President] Maduro's nephews admit to trafficking FARC drugs (Spanish) (Original Post) Marksman_91 Jul 2016 OP
I'm not surprised... Archae Jul 2016 #1
But...but .... but.....!! MADem Jul 2016 #2

MADem

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2. But...but .... but.....!!
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 09:18 PM
Jul 2016

Venezuela is a Bolivarian paradise!

Those people aren't hungry--they're dieting!!

Toilet paper and shampoo are overrated luxuries!!!

They should hire Baghdad Bob!

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