Florida Considering Charges Against Maduro, DeSantis Says

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Jan. 6 that the state’s attorney general is “looking very seriously” at bringing charges against former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who remains in U.S. custody in New York amid a federal indictment. During a press conference on Tuesday, DeSantis said he would support Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier possibly bringing state charges against Maduro, accusing the captured leader of funneling drugs and waves of illegal immigration to Florida and other states. “He was obviously very involved with bringing drugs, particularly to Florida,” DeSantis said. “You know what he would also do? And this is not in the federal indictment in New York: he would empty his prisons and send them to America across the border, and we’d end up with some of these people in Florida, Tren de Aragua, gang members that were in prison there, and he did that.”...