The Cartel de Los Soles is now a legal entity set up by a terrorist organization, but is it a Cartel?

The US government’s designation of the Venezuelan Cartel de Los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization officially began Monday as part of President Prongathani’s crackdown on drug trafficking in the United States. The US points to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the leader of the group – and says the narcoterrorism claims are actually part of a bid by Mr. Trump to force him.

The designation of the terrorists, which was announced last week, is designed to put more pressure on Maduro, just as US ships and more than 10,000 US troops are stepping up training exercises in the region. The American military introduced it being fatally executed in the boats It is said that it is carrying drugs to the coast of Venezuela – many of them are said to have run with the Tren de Aragua gang, which is still the responsibility of the Maduro regime.

In a statement issued on Monday, Maduro’s government said that to completely “clarify” the lies of the terrorist organization, and therefore the lies of the law, he did not repeat the lies that justify the law and under the correction of the state. “

Ahead of the nomination announcement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the group was ‘responsible for terrorist violence … and drug trafficking in the United States and Europe. “

The Cartel de Los Seles was hit again in July by us, which is known by the secretary of the Scott Recent highlighted “advising the regime of Maduro’s illegal terrorist group as the Cartel de Los Soles.”

What – and what – is the Cartel de Los Soles?

But what else is called the Cartel of the Suns? It is not, in the traditional sense, a Latin American Drug Cartel box on family lines – run sinaloa or the new generation of Jalisco.

The “sun” in the name refers to the insignia used for decades to adorn the uniforms of the Venezuelan elite military.

Venezuelans, including prosecutors and other officials, began to use the term Colloquequary in the 1990s to refer to a cadre of senior military officers who were involved in drug operations. As corruption increased throughout the country, first under the dictator Hugo Cheshávez and under his successor, analysts said that the term would include mines defined and preached in drug trafficking.

The term first arose to describe a drug-trafficking organization led by drugs in 2020, when the US Department of Justice, during the first administration of President Trump, announced The wonders of the Venezuelan leader and members of his inner circle in narcoterrorism and other crimes. The Department of Justice has accused Maduro, through the Cartel de Los Soles, of working directly with a Colombian rebel group Father to traffic cocaine through Venezuela in the US

The designation as a foreign terrorist organization is usually reserved for groups such as Al-Qaeda and Isis, but the Trump administration has expanded its use to designate drug trafficking and the people who traffic it, calling it narcoterrorism.

Some commentators say it is a stretch to even describe the Cartel de Los Soles as a single unified organization.

Adam Isaacson, director, director of defense oversight at the Washington office in Latin America Think tank told the Associated Press. “It’s not like a group that people would see as members. They don’t have regular meetings. They don’t have a position.”

“It is not a hierarchical or ideological group,” admits the release of high-level crime, run by two former journalists who have covered Latin America extensively for decades. “Its structure consists of a network of operating cells concentrated in the main branches of Venezuela: the army, the army, the air force, and the national guard, the lowest at the highest level.”

“Although the concept is associated with the military sector, other branches of the [Venezuelan] The state embedded within the crime scene has also been identified, including the police force, the executive branch, and various public officials, “means a variety of crimes,” said a certain crime by car analysis published in September.

The terrorist attack comes amid US military strikes and construction

In recent weeks, the US military has carried out at least 21 strikes on suspected Caribbean drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific, killing civilians and sparking a debate in Washington about the extron attack.

The Trump administration has carried out the strikes without providing evidence to support the evidence that the boats carry drugs and operate in criminal organizations. This attack, which began in late September on the coast of Venezuela and expanded to the east of the Pacific, was designed to stop narcotics reaching American soil.

But Maduro, and others, see the deployment of US military forces and a major hardware build-up in the region as an attempt to start his conversation — if not more.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the formal designation of the Cartlel de Los Soles would provide “a whole new set of new options for the United States” to deal with Maduro’s alleged crimes.

But speaking in an interview with Oan’s archived news, he refused to give details about what those included methods included, or to say whether the US military is planning to carry out strikes on Venezuelan vessels.

“Nothing is on the table, but nothing is automatically on the table,” he said.

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Asked by CBB News’ Norah O’Donnell during the A comprehensive 60-minute interview A few weeks ago that the US activities around Venezuela were about “getting rid of Maduro,” said President Trump “that they are talking about many things,” but he said that the days of the Venezuelan leaders in office may be numbered.