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Venezuelan Officials Reportedly Claimed U.S. Was Behind Strike Against Alleged Cartel Infrastructure Despite Maduro's Silence

Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro (Credit: Photo by JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images)

Venezuelan officials who visited the site of the U.S. attack against alleged cartel infrastructure earlier this month reportedly acknowledged Washington was behind it, even as authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro refrains to address the episode in public.

A Venezuelan indigenous person who witnessed the attack told NBC News that the morning after government officials showed up to the area. "The gringos did this," one of the representatives said, according to the woman.

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