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The United States will designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

In a statement, Rubio said the group is run by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose government the U.S. has called “illegitimate.”

“Based in Venezuela, the Cartel de los Soles is headed by Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking individuals of the illegitimate Maduro regime who have corrupted Venezuela’s military, intelligence, legislature, and judiciary,” Rubio said in a press release .

“Neither Maduro nor his croni

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