Drug trafficking keeping Maduro in power in Venezuela, analysts say

Drug trafficking keeping Maduro in power in Venezuela, analysts say https://ift.tt/2gKvzPo has been more than three months since the U.S. accelerated its onslaught of economic sanctions, words of warning and announced it was backing a completely new interim President – heightening official expectation that the Nicolas Maduro-led regime of Venezuela would crumble within a few days, if not a few weeks. Only the socialist dictatorship has failed to fall. While there an array of factors to blame, analysts are pointing to illicit trafficking rings as a fundamental Maduro lifeline.