The state of Campeche is explicitly mentioned in the indictment filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in case S4 11 Cr. 205 (AKH), which indicts Nicolás Maduro Moros, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, Nicolás Ernesto Maduro Guerra, and Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores for narcoterrorism, drug trafficking, and other federal crimes.
The indictment details how, in 2006, the “Cartel of the Suns”—an organization comprised of high-ranking Venezuelan government officials—shipped a consignment of more than 5.5 tons of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico aboard a DC-9 aircraft, which landed at the Ciudad del Carmen Airport in Campeche. Mexican authorities seized the entire shipment upon its arrival in Mexican territory.
This fact, documented in the court file, demonstrates the involvement of Campeche territory as part of the routes used by criminal organizations to move drugs from South America to the United States.
The indictment emphasizes that Nicolás Maduro Moros and his co-defendants used their positions to corrupt Venezuelan institutions, collaborated with drug trafficking groups, and coordinated large cocaine shipments, including operations involving Mexico, placing Campeche within the specific events investigated by U.S. authorities.
The inclusion of Campeche in this high-profile federal indictment against Maduro’s political circle underscores the transnational dimension of the investigation.
Source: tribunacampeche
