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Speaking with JNS about the U.S. decision to designate the Maduro-linked Cartel de los Soles as a terror group, B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin emphasized that “terror cannot pay” and that there must be “no safe zones for terror.” Read more at JNS.org.
“There should be no safe zones for terror, whether in the Middle East or right here in the Western Hemisphere,” Daniel Mariaschin, of B’nai B’rith, told JNS.
Jewish groups praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to designate a criminal network, which is tied to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, as a terror organization.
Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, stated on Nov. 16 that Cartel de los Soles, “cartel of the suns,” is headed by Maduro and “other high-ranking individuals of the illegitimate Maduro regime who have corrupted Venezuela’s military, intelligence, legislature and judiciary.”
“Neither Maduro nor his cronies represent Venezuela’s legitimate government,” the U.S. secretary stated. “Cartel de los Soles, by and with other designated foreign terror organizations, including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel, are responsible for terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe.”
The Maduro regime has reportedly denied that the cartel exists.
Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS that “the key message here is that terror cannot pay, whether carried out by state or non-state actors.”
“There should be no safe zones for terror, whether in the Middle East or right here in the Western Hemisphere,” he said. The “designation of the state terror enterprise in Venezuela will surely resound globally,” he said.
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