Tommy Vitor

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Pod Save the World · Where Will Trump Invade Next? · 7 Jan 2026 podcast

Yeah.

One other important thing we've learned in the last couple of days from the new indictment of Maduro is that the Justice Department is no longer alleging that he is the leader of an actual cartel called Cartel de los Soles.

That claim was first made in their indictment of Maduro back in 2020.

And then that language from that indictment was used to designate Cartel de los Souls as a terrorist organization by both the Treasury Department and the State Department.

And then you repeatedly heard guys like Marco Rubio say, well, Maduro is a designated leader of a narco terrorist group.

So, of course, we have to like take him out.

But, you know, actual Venezuela experts kept pointing out that Cartel de las Souls is not a real organization.

It is a slang term invented by the Venezuelan media to refer to corrupt officials who are corrupted by drug money in particular.

And so this new Maduro indictment reflects that reality, Ben, and says cartels de la souls refers to a patronage system or a culture of corruption that is fueled by drug money.

In other words, the Trump administration, they knew the 2020 claim was bullshit.

So they had to pull it because they knew they couldn't get it passed in a court of law.

And so they dropped the thing.

So that seemed to be, again, shout out Charlie Savage at the New York Times for kind of reporting this out and flagging it.

But it seems like a pretty astounding admission since

designating this fake cartel as a terrorist group is the linchpin of this made up legal strategy that the Trump administration has pointed to to justify these airstrikes where they've been murdering people in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean.

Yeah, that's a really good point.

Last thing, there have been a lot of comparisons to this, the Majora operation to the operation against Manuel Noriega in the 1980s and early 1990s that we thought we'd just spend a minute talking about that.

So for those who don't know, maybe weren't alive then, the operation against Noriega was...

Started in December of 89 and ended in January of 1990.

Then President George H.W.

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