Last month, the United States government designated the Cártel de los Soles, a Venezuelan-based organization allegedly led by President Nicolás Maduro, as a foreign terrorist organization.
For months, the Trump administration has argued that the cartel is run by Maduro and other top officials who, through a criminal network woven into Venezuela's military and political institutions, enable and profit from drug trafficking. And days ago it designated the group as a terrorist organization.
