Politician Julio Borges believes that the State’s permissiveness towards the guerrillas has led them to use the country as a “base” for the production of drugs
The political leader of Primero Justicia Julio Borges denounced on Monday, April 17, that Venezuela “has ceased to be a drug transit country and is now becoming a drug-producing country,” warning of alleged links with drug trafficking groups by the administration of Nicolás Maduro.
«Venezuela could become the 4th country with the highest drug production in the world. That is, we have not seen everything, the symptoms of the disease could still worsen. The dimensions of the problem could worsen to the extent that political, social and economic conditions continue to worsen, “he stressed.
This was stated by Borges in a short video on the social networks where he indicated that his assertions are based on a report made by InSight Crime. In this sense, he warned that Venezuela is a “mafia State” that is run by various “mafias” that fight among themselves to plunder the country of its wealth and said that so far only a little of what really happens has been known. .
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Today we are posting on @infobae a column on a very serious topic: #Venezuela It is no longer just a bridge for drug trafficking, now it is becoming a drug-producing country.
Read at the following link: https://t.co/qqBkVyAvdo pic.twitter.com/8YtIsokwjv– Julio Borges (@JulioBorges) April 17, 2023
As a complement, in his article published on the portal infobae, Julio Borges considers that the corruption plot uncovered in several state companies; The investigation headed by the Prosecutor’s Office and the issues associated with this issue is just a smoke screen to see what really happens.
He indicated, based on the report of the aforementioned organization, that the State lost the “monopoly of force” and that is why there is a proliferation of criminal actions and warns that the rise of drug trafficking was caused by factors such as the economic crisis; the abandonment by the government of those areas and the increase in crime.
For Borges, the fact that Miraflores has been “permissive” with guerrillas such as the ELN and the FARC dissidence to establish themselves in Venezuelan territory, turned the country into a “criminal operations base.”
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«This universe has been forged with the unrestricted support of the Venezuelan authorities. Not in vain in the hands of the justice of the United States rest judicial accusations for drug trafficking against the heads of the Venezuelan State. For Maduro, the income from the black economy is increasingly a source of oxygen for his corrupt regime », writes the politician in exile.
For this reason, the leader of Primero Justicia insists that a “new focus of national and international pressure” must be created on the Maduro administration and with that, he warns that this situation could worsen if a change is not achieved in 2024 in the elections.
President Nicolás Maduro affirmed to end of December 2022 that the National Armed Forces (FAN) carried out 10 operations to expel the Tancol, which is the acronym invented by his government to refer, in general, to “Colombian drug-trafficking armed terrorists,” during the year.
As he said in an act of salutation to the military, such operations were carried out in nine states of the country (Zulia, Guárico, Apure, Táchira, Monagas, Sucre, Falcón, Delta Amacuro and Bolívar) and involved 99 deployments of Venezuelan troops in which Among other actions, 61 laboratories to produce drugs were dismantled and 441 camps of alleged criminal gangs were destroyed.
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