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🧨 The Trump Administration Just Admitted That It Made Up a Fake Venezuelan Cartel It Claimed President Maduro Was the Leader Of

They used a slang phrase like a terrorist organization, bombed Venezuela, seized Maduro, then rewrote the story after the fact

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Shaun King
Jan 07, 2026
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The U.S. government spent months selling the public a scary story about Venezuela: that Nicolás Maduro was the leader of a narco-terror “cartel” called Cartel de los Soles. They used that label to justify escalation. They used it to justify violence. They used it to justify the idea that bombing another country and seizing its president was “law enforce…

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