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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 24

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  1. Omnicrola
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    U.S. set to label Maduro-tied Cartel de los Soles as a terror organization Cool. I was not as politically/globally aware in 2002 when WMDs were used as justification for invading a country....

    U.S. set to label Maduro-tied Cartel de los Soles as a terror organization

    Venezuelans began using the term Cartel de los Soles in the 1990s to refer to high-ranking military officers who had grown rich from drug-running. As corruption later expanded nationwide, first under the late President Hugo Chávez and then under Maduro, its use loosely expanded to police and government officials as well as activities like illegal mining and fuel trafficking.

    "It is not a group," said Adam Isaacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America organization. "It's not like a group that people would ever identify themselves as members. They don't have regular meetings. They don't have a hierarchy."

    U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the upcoming designation of Cartel de los Soles will provide a "whole bunch of new options to the United States" for dealing with Maduro.

    Cool. I was not as politically/globally aware in 2002 when WMDs were used as justification for invading a country. Looking looking back with 20/20 hindsight at Iraq, this feels like they're setting up even more thin and flimsy justifications to invade a country.