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Yeah, the timing on this is quite strange amid Trump's anti-narcotics campaign.
And just before the Honduran presidential election that took place on Sunday.
But Trump has also been quick to defend former presidents elsewhere in the world who get into legal hot water.
Juan Orlando Hernandez is a former Honduran president who was sentenced last year in the U.S.
to 45 years in prison for helping to traffic more than 50
400 tons of cocaine into the US without providing any evidence.
Trump claimed that Hernandez was, quote, set up by the Biden administration and that he deserves a full pardon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the so-called Cartel de los Soles
as a foreign terrorist organization for its alleged role in drug trafficking.
The Trump administration says that the cartel is made up of high-ranking Venezuelan military officers and led by President Nicolas Maduro.
The Venezuelan government is rejecting the designation today, calling it a, quote, ridiculous fabrication, and insisting that there's no such thing as the Cartel de los Soles.
The terrorist designation comes as the U.S.
has positioned warships and thousands of troops near the coast of Venezuela, raising expectations of a possible military strike inside the country.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the so-called Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization for its alleged role in drug trafficking.
The Trump administration says that the cartel is made up of high-ranking Venezuelan military officers and led by President Nicolás Maduro.
The Venezuelan government is rejecting the designation today, calling it a, quote, ridiculous fabrication, and insisting that there's no such thing as the Cartel de los Soles.
The terrorist designation comes as the U.S.
has positioned warships and thousands of troops near the coast of Venezuela, raising expectations of a possible military strike inside the country.