U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has named Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro as among those leaders who are helping to poison the American people by trafficking narcotics to the country.
While interacting with U.S. troops in the Caribbean region, Hegseth said that the War Department knows who the traffickers are, what illegal substances they are trafficking, the routes they take, and who their leaders are — including Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela.
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