Trump administration targets Maduro’s inner circle, family in major narco-state crackdown
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The Treasury Department announced new sanctions Friday targeting seven family members and associates of Nicolás Maduro's regime to address Venezuelan corruption.
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"Today, Treasury sanctioned individuals who are propping up Nicolás Maduro’s rogue narco-state. We will not allow Venezuela to continue flooding our nation with deadly drugs," Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said. "Maduro and his criminal accomplices threaten our hemisphere’s peace and stability. The Trump Administration will continue targeting the networks that prop up his illegitimate dictatorship."
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