Bondi: US indicts Maduro and wife on narco-terror charges

US At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Pamela Bon­di has an­nounced that Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cil­ia Flo­res, have been in­dict­ed in the South­ern Dis­trict of New York on mul­ti­ple charges, in­clud­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism con­spir­a­cy, co­caine im­por­ta­tion con­spir­a­cy, and pos­ses­sion of ma­chine­guns and de­struc­tive de­vices.

In a state­ment on Twit­ter on Sat­ur­day, Bon­di said the cou­ple “will soon face the full wrath of Amer­i­can jus­tice on Amer­i­can soil in Amer­i­can courts.”

She thanked Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump for de­mand­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty and praised US mil­i­tary per­son­nel for what she de­scribed as an “in­cred­i­ble and high­ly suc­cess­ful mis­sion” to cap­ture the pair, whom she called “al­leged in­ter­na­tion­al nar­co traf­fick­ers.”

Bon­di said the De­part­ment of Jus­tice stands be­hind the op­er­a­tion, em­pha­sis­ing that the charges re­flect the US com­mit­ment to pur­su­ing in­ter­na­tion­al crim­i­nal ac­count­abil­i­ty.