Jelinda Montes – Salon Jan 6, 2026

The Department of Justice significantly reduced reference to the Cartel de Los Soles in an updated indictment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who has been charged “with narco-terrorism conspiracy” and other charges. Maduro pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday.
The original 2020 grand jury indictment mentioned the Cartel de Los Soles 32 times and referred to Maduro as its head. The amended indictment, released on Saturday, only includes the phrase twice and now describes it as a “patronage system” and removed the explicit reference that these officials are literal members of the cartel.
The phrase, meaning “Cartel of the Suns” in English, was coined by Venezuelan journalists in the 1990s as shorthand for leaders corrupted by drug money — not an actual cartel. The name refers to the sun symbols on many high-ranking official’s uniforms.
Nevertheless, the Cartel de Los Soles was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the Department of State in November 2025. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the designation on following Department of Treasury sanctions announced earlier in the year.
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent levied the sanction in July and said it “exposes the illegitimate Maduro regime’s facilitation of narco-terrorism through terrorist groups like Cartel de los Soles.”
Rubio spoke on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and continued to refer to Cartel de Los Soles as an actual organization headed by Maduro, though the amended indictment was released a day prior.
“We continue to reserve the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs towards the United States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de los Soles,” he said. “Of course, their leader — the leader of that cartel — is now in U.S. custody … and that’s Nicolás Maduro.”

If you think about it, a “cartel” is no different to a “government”. The biggest difference is you can get away from a “cartel”. Make a list of the wrongs your average “cartel” commits, then another of what every “government” commits. The second list will be a thousand times longer. The “government” dictates every facet of your life. The “cartel” merely does “illegal” things, as laid down by the “government”. If there was no “government”, you’d be “allowed” to kill the “cartel”. Maybe if we ask the “cartel”, they’ll kill the “government”?
Oh, the “terrorist cartel” is very real…their most recent operation was stealing Venezuela and kidnapping their president. The terrorist cartel will probably bomb Iran again real soon.
President Maduro might have done better to do what the Irish Republicans of the 1970s did, and that was not to acknowledge the legitimacy of a British court by responding when asked for a plea. He still looks like a strong character but he should know he may not survive America for long, and a dismissive silence might be better remembered than engaging with these illegitimate monkeys.
He’s where he is only because he’s a popular anti-imperialist lefty.
The biggest drug cartels are the alphabet agencies.. The largest is the CIA itself, closely followed by Mossad. MI6 is a minor player in comparison.
one female black singer (dont know her name)
once refrained : there will be no government …..
error, there will always be a ruler . in times of
chaos black, white + islamic mafias will fight
for power (the jewish world mafia we have today
is the biggest) .
The following video dialogue between Napolitano and Macgregor is from a link provided by Ron Unz in his article, Puncturing the Propaganda-Bubble of the USSA and Its EUSSR Vassals, January 5, 2026. It demonstrates America’s culpability:
So brasen has the US deep state cartel of the Khazarian Mafia become that as Macgregor alluded to, they have no fear of expressing military details that would best be kept secret.
Ron Unz’s article also points out the US culpability on the drone attack on an apparent attempt to assassinate President Putin:
In the backdrop of US Senate and Congressional meetings, mysteriously Israeli display flags are now making their debut in media. Previously this was not done. Indeed, the KM now ride on the back of the US behemoth as the ancient Judeans did on the back of Rome as expressed in Revelation Chapter 17. However G-d is original whereas Satan is not.
With the Rothschild owned central bank of Iran collapsing the Rial causing widespread panic in preparation for Israel and US to attack Iran and assassination attempt on President Putin’s residence to murder him or close family members, may this be the outcome soon? Gog is Netanyahu: