Cartel Election Influence (US)

The U.S. Treasury Department and State Department have both designated Cartel de los Soles as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and Foreign Terrorist Organization, respectively, based on documented material support to the Sinaloa Cartel and Tren de Aragua in narcotics trafficking into the United States Federal prosecutors in New York charged Nicolás Maduro and associates in 2020 with narco-terrorism conspiracy and cocaine importation conspiracy, with Cartel de los Soles referenced throughout as a drug trafficking network operating through Venezuelan state institutions.