U.S. president Donald Trump has claimed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was responsible for the overdose deaths of “countless Americans,” accusing him of trafficking “colossal amounts of deadly and illicit drugs” into the country.
Those allegations were used in part to justify Maduro’s arrest by U.S. authorities on 3 January, following a series of U.S. military attacks on boats off Venezuela’s coast that have killed more than 115 people since September.
