Miami- The United States Agency against Drug Trafficking (DEA) maintains active one of the highest rewards in history by the main leaders of the Los Soles poster, a drug trafficking network linked to the high command of the Venezuelan regime. The total sum amounts to sixty -five million dollars, distributed between Nicolás Maduro Moros, Diosdado Cabello Rondón and Vladimir Padrino López.
The DEA offers twenty -five million dollars for the capture of Maduro and another twenty -five for the Chavista Diosdado Cabello, while the reward for Padrino López is fifteen million dollars. These figures exceed the amounts offered at the time by figures such as the head of the Medellín cartel, Pablo Escobar, who had a price of $ 2,700,000, or the Panamanian general Manuel Noriega, ally of the Colombian poster, whose capture was valued in one million dollars.
According to the news portal La Razón, this last sum would have been delivered to the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in Panama City, Monsignor José Sebastián Laboa, “who facilitated Noriega’s delivery to US authorities after offering temporary asylum at the diplomatic headquarters of the Vatican “.
Unlike Escobar, dejected by Colombian forces without the payment of reward, the fate of the leaders of the Los Soles poster is still uncertain. However, the millionaire supply of the DEA has aroused the interest of “hunting” of various nationalities that seek to capture these senior officials of the Venezuelan regime.
THE SOLES CARTEL: A CRIMINAL NETWORK
The Los Soles poster is a drug trafficking organization that operates in Venezuela and is composed of high military commanders and officials of Chavismo. Its origin dates back to the 1990s, when National Guard officers began to be linked to drug trafficking.
The term “soles” comes from the badges of the generals of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, who, according to various investigations, have been a key piece in the consolidation of this criminal network.
This poster has been indicated by United States agencies and international organizations as a fundamental actor in the distribution of cocaine to the United States and Europe, using clandestine routes that cross Colombia, Central America and the Caribbean. Through the control of ports, airports and terrestrial corridors, the Los Soles poster has managed to establish itself as an essential gear within global drug trafficking, consolidating an alliance with armed groups and guerrillas that facilitate the transit of drugs outside of Venezuela.
