Terry Cole said that despite the fact that Donald Trump’s administration has reinforced its efforts to dismantle drug trafficking networks, especially at the borders, so far from 2025 they have “seized more cocaine than in previous years.” Delcy Rodríguez rejected the statements of the DEA official and assured that it is a “rude burning” to justify an aggression
The director of the United States Drug Control Administration (DEA), Terry Cole, accused Venezuela on Thursday, collaborating with Colombian guerrillas such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) to send “record amounts of cocaine” to the Mexican posters that traffic towards the US.
“Venezuela has become a narcoterrorist state that continues to collaborate with the FARC and the Colombia’s Eln to send record amounts of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexican posters, who continue to enter the United States,” Cole said in an interview with the Fox News chain.
Cole added that despite the fact that the administration of President Donald Trump has reinforced his efforts to dismantle drug trafficking networks, especially at the borders, so far from 2025 they have “seized more cocaine than in previous years” and warned that “the amount of methamphetamine and fentanyl that enters the country that enters the country.
«Venezuelan corruption, the Venezuelan dictatorship, is a narcoterrorist. They continue to send this poison to the United States, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, not to mention the members of the (band) Train of Aragua who send to our country to destroy their beautiful streets, ”he warned, repeating Trump’s statements.
Vice President: she is a rude burning
After disseminating Cole’s statements, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the DEA is the “largest drug poster that exists in the world.”
He rejected the accusations and assured that “the agency’s own reports direct, called ‘National Drug Threat Assessment’ of the year 2024 and 2025, nowhere mention Venezuela as a factor of importance in drug trafficking to the United States.”
In his Telegram channel, he described Cole’s statements as a “rude ardid” that seeks to support an aggression against Venezuela.
«The entire planet knows that the true poster is in the north. Venezuela will know how to firmly defend territorial integrity, sovereignty and historical dignity of its people, ”he wrote.
Petro: The Colombian guerrillas is in Venezuela
This week, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrodenounced the presence of Colombian guerrilla groups and drug trafficking mafias in Venezuelan territory.
“Diosdado says that in Venezuela they are not … yes. What I have done is invite them to take them out, coordinating,” said Petro, during a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Bogotá, on Tuesday night, referring to the presence of Colombian guerrillas in Venezuelan territory.
Earlier, the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, had assured that the Venezuelan borders are well protected.
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These accusations occur, after the statements of the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, who said Tuesday that the United States is prepared to “use all its power” to stop the “drug flow to their country.”
The official’s statements occurred at a press conference in which he was asked about the deployment of three ships with 4,000 soldiers in the Caribbean waters near Venezuela.
«The regime of (Nicolás) Maduro is not the legitimate government of Venezuela. It is a drug trafficking poster, according to the opinion of this administration. Maduro is not a legitimate president. He is a fugitive leader of this poster, accused in the US of drug trafficking to the country, ”Leavitt insisted.
Since the Maduro Administration they have expressed their rejection of the United States government accusations against Nicolás Maduro. The Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, warned Donald Trump’s government that he does not “dare” to set foot on Venezuelan soil because he will encounter an “armed force and a united people” in the defense of the country.
With information from the EFE agency
*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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