Cartel of the Suns

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Cartel of the Suns (Spanish: Cartel de los Soles, Spanish pronunciation: [kaɾˈtel de los ˈsoles]) is an umbrella term used to describe an alleged loose drug trafficking network or networks of cells also participating in other related criminal activity including illegal mining and smuggling of sanctioned resources and laundering of illicit profits involving members of the Bolivarian Venezuelan Government, the Armed Forces and Intelligence Service, including high-ranking officers and political officials. Experts studying the drug trade do not use the term to refer to a single hierarchical organization or a literal drug cartel, but as journalistic shorthand for an informal system of corruption by which military and political officials profit by working with drug traffickers. The term Cartel of the Suns was first used in 1993 as a journalistic label following a political scandal involving Venezuelan military officials who were implicated in a CIA plot to smuggle cocaine into the United States...

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