How UK’s cocaine prices could skyrocket as brutal ‘megabanda’ cartels brace for war over Venezuela’s drugs superhighway

WHEN Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro stood shackled before lawmakers at New York’s federal court, he blasted his “kidnapping” by US special forces and defiantly insisted: “I am a decent man.” But the socialist despot is accused of running a ruthless South American cartel responsible for exporting 75 per cent of the cocaine smuggled into Europe...