U.S. Charges 2 Venezuelan Officials With Cocaine Smuggling
U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments Monday against two high-ranking Venezuelan officials for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., in the latest setback for the embattled government of President Nicolás Maduro.Prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn unsealed indictments against Gen. Néstor Reverol, the former head of the country’s National Guard and its antidrug agency, and Gen.Edylberto Molina, who was second-in-command to Gen. Reverol at the antidrug agency.
The two men were in charge of the agency—known as the National Anti-Drug Office, an agency prosecutors compared to the Drug Enforcement Administration—between 2008 and 2010, the indictment said. It charged that the two co-conspirators helped facilitate shipments of cocaine from Colombia through Venezuela, up through Mexico and Central America and eventually to the U.S.
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