MintCast Trump’s Cartel Hoax: How Washington Uses Venezuela to Sell War
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The Trump administration is beating the drums of war in Latin America. Washington has placed a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of running a cocaine empire called the Cartel of the Suns.
But experts say the cartel barely registers on the DEA’s radar. Instead, the U.S. is inflating it into a narco-state menace — a pretext for regime change and invasion.
MintCast hosts Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod are joined by:
- Diego Sequera, journalist with Misión Verdad in Caracas
- Leonardo Flores, co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network and former analyst at Venezuela’s embassy in Washington
Together, they expose how Washington is weaponizing myths about drug trafficking to justify intervention — and why Venezuela remains at the heart of Latin America’s anti-imperialist struggle.
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