Florida Trafficking & International Human-Rights Litigation for Venezuelan Cartel Survivors: TVPA § 1595, Civil RICO Treble, and Florida Civil Theft Actions Against Tren de Aragua, CJNG, Hezbollah Networks, and the U.S. Shell-Company Buyers Who Launder Their Gold — Free Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
You Have a Federal Case. The Pipeline Runs Through Miami. You may have read the June 17, 2026 New York Post opinion editorial by Josh Birenbaum, deputy director of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and his research associate Susan Soh. The piece ran under the headline US must halt the terror-driven gold rush that's looting Venezuela, and it reads like a foreign-policy essay: Venezuelan cartel gold funding Tren de Aragua, funding Hezbollah, ending up allegedly in the gold coins issued by the United States Mint, and being laundered into Florida businesses by a Venezuelan colonel who also runs that country's torture centers. Children under the age of ten laboring in mines. Girls as young as twelve sent into brothels. Mercury, cyanide, and arsenic poisoning whole communities. Estimates of ten to twelve billion dollars a year at 2026 gold prices — at a record $5,400 per ounce in January — moving through the same pipeline. We want to tell you the second half of that story, the half the editorial could not print because a newspaper is not a legal pleading. The harms the editorial describes are the outline of a federal…