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Maduro does shady stuff like he's involved in drug trafficking, but also his country regularly has its boats robbed and its money stolen by imperialist governments. I doubt he feels good about making money from mafias and drug cartels, but Venezuela has to bring in the money somehow. And imperialist nations have made it their mission to cripple Venezuela as much as possible through economic sanctions.
If he has most legal avenues of money cut off, it's only reasonable to expect he'd get involved with shady things. A country has to make money somehow, and at a certain point you have to decide what's more moral: letting people starve or selling drugs.