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CommandEleven Intelligence Desk // Transnational Organized Crime Desk, status as of November 12, 2026
Bottom Line Up Front. Cartel de los Soles is a term Venezuelans began using in the 1990s for senior military officers who grew rich from drug trafficking; it later came to cover police, officials and activities such as illegal mining and fuel smuggling, per The Week. The State Department announced on November 16, 2025 that it would designate the group a Foreign Terrorist Organization effective November 24, 2025, saying it is "headed by Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking individuals." These are U.S. allegations. Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America disputes that it is a conventional cartel: "It is not a group." The Week reports that the U.S. captured Maduro and his wife on January 3, 2026; we have not independently sourced the legal proceedings.
What We Could Not Source. The structure of the group, current leadership after Maduro capture, and court status were not in sources we could verify. Treated as DATA DEFICIT.
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