Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America
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Key Points:
- Donald Trump allegedly conducted a military invasion of Venezuela aiming to arrest Nicolás Maduro for trial in the US, while the indictment against Maduro accuses him of coordinating large-scale cocaine shipments and collaborating with FARC and the Cártel de Los Soles.
- Maduro’s former military intelligence head, Hugo Carvajal Barrios, pled guilty but is not publicly known to be cooperating, with ongoing legal proceedings questioning aspects of his plea.
- Efforts to secure pardons for Latin American leaders like former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández were tied to political strategies aligned with Trump’s foreign policy, promising regional influence and opposition to leftist regimes including Venezuela.
- The US legal rationale for such extraterritorial arrests is supported by a 1989 Office of
