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“It is a drug cartel that is running Venezuela,” Miller said in an interview earlier this month.

In exchange, the cartel promised a bottomless supply of cheap drugs that the Mexican Mafia could sell on American streets.

Washington contends the actions are part of a US anti-drug operation off the coast of Venezuela, whose president Washington accuses of running a cartel.

Earlier this year he began designating some Latin American criminal gangs and drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations.

That same month, he ordered the Pentagon to use military force against Latin American cartels that his government has labeled terrorists.