1) The Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels, and the Colombian gangs traffic their drugs through El Salvador.
The US government and investigative reporters have found the Bukele administration receives bribes from the drug traffickers, and the Bukele administration has negotiated leniency for MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members in exchange for a reduction in the violence they commit in El Salvador.
Bukele has cracked down on journalists who have attempted to cover these activities, and some have fled El Salvador in fear of their lives.
Many Venezuelans who fled the Maduro regime were rounded up in the US by Donald Trump and transported to El Salvador to be tortured in Bukele's infamous prison, CECOT.
2) Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, during all of Trump's first term, and part of Obama's last term, trafficked 400 TONS of drugs into the United States.
Trump allowed this. Biden stopped Juan Orlando Hernandez and he was tried and convicted, guess where.
New York. Where Maduro is now.
Hernandez was sentenced to 45 years.
Shortly after taking office the second time, Trump wasted no time in pardoning this cretin and is allowing him to stay free and at will in the United States so he can avoid prosecution in Honduras.
Trump allowed Hernandez to smuggle those drugs in, and he'll be damned if he lets the guy face justice. The elites have to stick together.
400 tons. If we use the mathematics employed by our highest law enforcement officer in the country, the esteemed Attorney General Pam Bondi, then Juan Orlando Hernandez and Donald Trump are responsible for the deaths of 24 billion Americans.
Any narratives by the neocons about Trump's real motives for regime change in Venezuela are pure, unadulterated bullshit.
It's a US government bailout of our oil companies. Nothing more, nothing less.
That the Venezuelan people are better off at the moment is serendipity, not the goal.
Venezuela will be the newest banana republic in Latin America.