Venezuela promotes general indicted in US on drug charges

[Zorro]

Source: AP

A day after Venezuela's former drug czar was indicted in the United States on narcotics trafficking charges, President Nicolas Maduro defiantly named him interior minister.

Maduro said Tuesday that he was promoting Nestor Reverol to the position that oversees law enforcement as a gesture of support for a man who had done good work cracking down on the drug trade in Venezuela and is being tarnished by the "U.S. empire."

U.S. prosecutors on Monday announced the indictment of Reverol, who previously led Venezuela's National Guard, where senior officers are alleged to have been involved in cocaine smuggling.

"He is a brave man who is not afraid of anything or anyone," Maduro said. "As interior minister he broke the record for arrests of drug kingpins. The DEA and all the United States drug-trafficking mafias want to make him pay, because the drug-trafficking mafia runs the Untied States."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-promotes-general-indicted-us-drug-charges-135908819.html

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Great way to get rid of your smuggling competition.

[Archae]

1. Just as I said over the past few years.

Maduro is so corrupt he stinks on ice.

[spud_demon]

2. Operation Just Cause

Remember what happened to Noriega? The accusation by the DEA was the justification for an invasion and coup.

Of course, that was when GHW Bush was in office. Obama wouldn't...

[COLGATE4]

3. Yep. Our invasion fleet sets sail in a week's time.

[Igel]

4. Because Bush.

After all, the past isn't prolog, the past is the present is the future.

Obama = Bush = Reagan, I guess. The only context we need is ourselves.

Solipsism doesn't like company, so buy your two-pack of Fact-B-Gone today!

[COLGATE4]

5. Fascinating.

[Nitram]

6. I have no illusions that our country's foreign policy in Latin America is totally benign.

But the regime in Venezuela is rotten to the core.