The vice president of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, accused the United States of being the worldwide drug trafficking center and being “a very relevant country regarding illicit drug trafficking.” Denied that in Venezuela they are sowing, storing or transporting drugs
The vice president of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, said Monday, September 8 that “Venezuela is not part of the great international narcotic conflagration” and said that the United Nations reports have affirmed that for 27 years in a row, from 1999 to the present, this country “does not appear as relevance in the field of illicit drugs, narcotics or narcotics.”
He insisted that the main export route of cocaine is the Pacific and indicated that if the United States were interested in ending drug trafficking towards its territory, “the concentration should be or its ships in the Pacific.” He also added that “it would be much easier to combat and pursue money laundering in its territory than being sending ships to assault a nation of peace, a people of peace such as Venezuela; unless its intentions are others, that it is not to combat illicit drug trafficking ».
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In the opinion of the official, for the administration of Donald Trump it is much more “economic and efficient” to attack the money laundering and policies against drug use, “that this madness and dangerous show they have in Venezuela and in the Caribbean” and assured that the “story of combating drug trafficking has been permeated by double morals and falsehood (by the US)”.
The vice president accused the United States of being the worldwide drug laundering center and being “a very relevant country in illicit drug trafficking.”
In this regard, Delcy Rodríguez said that in Venezuela drugs are not sown, they are not stored nor transit and recalled that “more than 402 drug trafficking aircraft have been demolished by Venezuelan security agencies”; However, he did not specify the period of time in which these operations have been carried out, but warned that the one who tries to pass narcotics through this territory “will be convicted and persecuted.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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