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(46,318 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 01:04 AM Feb 2017

U.S. calls Venezuela's vice president an international drug trafficker

Source: CNN

(CNN) — U.S. authorities on Monday said the vice president of Venezuela was an international drug trafficker and slapped severe sanctions on him.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Tareck El Aissami has played a "significant role in international narcotics trafficking," a news release said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/world/us-sanctions-venezuela-vice-president/index.html



If this is true, it would not surprise me a bit.

Maduro and his cronies are so corrupt they stink on ice.
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U.S. calls Venezuela's vice president an international drug trafficker (Original Post) Archae Feb 2017 OP
Not up on any of this, normally would be news to be talked about but Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #1
I guess so. Archae Feb 2017 #2

Archae

(46,318 posts)
2. I guess so.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:53 PM
Feb 2017

There are things happening in South America, but Trump, his cronies and their antics just plain over-run the news.

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