Have we learned nothing? Nicolas Maduro is without a doubt a horrendous and illegitimate dictator. He lost the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, but through fraud and force, he stayed in power. He [Nicolas Maduro] is a known drug trafficker and has been indicted twice by the Department of Justice on multiple charges of collaborating with drug cartels and smuggling drugs into the United States. And he is a brutal dictator responsible for murder, torture and systematic repression of the Venezuelan people. But the question today before us is not whether Nicolas Maduro is a brutal dictator or not. (00:27–00:50)
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Asserts that Nicolas Maduro is a known drug trafficker indicted twice by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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