DEA opens sealed criminal file on Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez in Miami federal court

DEA agents and Miami-based federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida opened a sealed criminal investigation targeting Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez, citing evidence she had used her role to facilitate cocaine transit and protect traffickers with ties to Colombian guerrilla groups. The file was never publicly acknowledged at the time. It sat active for eight years, representing the evidentiary foundation that DOJ prosecutors would later be ordered to shelve.