The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, responded sharply, through his social networks, to the accusations of Senator María Fernanda Cabal, clarifying that those who handle cocaine traffic for Colombia and Venezuela, “are the drug trafficking board, the US government and European intelligences.”
The president Gustavo Petro, went to the way to the unfounded accusations of the Colombian senator María Fernanda Cabal, who through his account in X criticized statements by the Colombian Interior Minister, Gustavo Benedetti and President Nicolás Maduro, regarding the cooperation of both nations against drug trafficking.
«No lady. Who handles cocaine trafficking through Venezuela is not the Suns poster, that is a lie like the weapons of mass destruction of Iraq, and only serves to invade countries. Who handles cocaine trafficking by Venezuela are the same that handle the cocaine traffic of the Catatumbo, Los Llanos and La Sabana de Bogotá, they are called the Drug Trafficking Board and the US Government and the intelligences of Europe have long had the information, ”said Petro in part of their publication on social networks.
No lady. Who handles cocaine traffic through Venezuela is not the “Sol Cartel”, that is a lie like the weapons of massive destruction of Iraq, and only serves to invade countries.
Who handles cocaine traffic through Venezuela are the same that handle traffic … https://t.co/lwe9cctdlp
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) August 20, 2025
Petro said that the authorities of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, have managed to capture large Albanian and Italian capos “which are part of the World Drug Trafficking Board, which privileges Europe at its destination and destroys the Government of Haiti.”
Likewise, she reminded the official the consequence of an invasion of Venezuela. “The consequence, Mrs. Senator, to stimulate an invasion of Venezuela, will result in millions in migration to Colombia and the fall in the price of oil to less than 50 dollars, and there will be, therefore, to Ecopetrol, while the extractors of North American and Russian Arab Livian Petroleums, they will stay with the market,” he said.
This week the president Petro has launched severe warnings about what could cause a US military intervention in Venezuela, stating that it would be “the worst mistake”, with consequences throughout the Latin American region.
