The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, reported this Monday that Venezuela has seized more than 63 thousand kilos of drugs so far this year. «Venezuela has a very advanced model of fighting against the scourge of drug trafficking, not only against trying to use our land or air space, which our police forces, our intelligence forces, our military forces prevent in permanent combat and with great success. This year we have had great successes.
During the Zona Digital segment of his program Con Maduro +, edition 96, the head of state reiterated that Venezuela will be 100% free of any step of Colombian drug trafficking.
Maduro also detailed that in Venezuela camps and clandestine runways have been destroyed. “With the constitutional law on air interception, pim pum pam, drug trafficking planes have also been brought down by the truckload.”
The national leader denounced that while the United States was moving some planes through the Caribbean, two drug trafficking planes tried to enter Venezuela.
«While the United States moved some planes through the Caribbean. Two drug trafficking planes tried to enter Venezuela. What a thing, right? What a coincidence. They saying that they had some planes in the northern Caribbean, northern Venezuela. Two drug trafficking planes passed through international waters,” said President Maduro.
In this regard, the dignitary highlighted the work carried out by the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the air defense system. “He applied the law, he applied the complete protocols according to the law, according to the Constitution, according to international law and in the end he applied the mechanisms provided for in that constitutional law and pum pum pam down the two drug trafficking planes, how strange that they passed in the middle of avoiding what pretends to be an aerial fence by the United States air force.”
He explained that the biggest combat of the Venezuelan security forces takes place in Catatumbo, in Táchira, in Apure, in La Guajira and in the Caribbean. “Venezuela is a fairly healthy society (…), with very low consumption of any type of drug.”
“What is said there in the north that they are cartelizing to attack Venezuela and the dignity, decency and ethics of our country, is simply refuted by the concrete achievements,” he highlighted.
For his part, the sectoral vice president of Politics, Citizen Security and Peace and minister for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, added that the strongest blow that has been dealt to drug trafficking is its logistics network, being essential to mobilize all the drugs that “in theory should pass through Venezuela.”
“Setting up a logistics network takes a lot of time to organize with transportation, with fuel, with people, with links, even (…) with officials who lend themselves to these shady businesses,” he explained.
Cabello reported that to date there are a significant number of people detained, in addition to the confiscation of their equipment, such as boats and 300 horsepower motors, which are now used by the Bolivarian Revolution to defend the entire national territory.
Ecuador
During his speech, President Maduro highlighted that all the drugs produced in Colombia, in Peru and partly in Bolivia, leave through Ecuador “and leave on the ships and companies of the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa (…) The logistics network of the companies, the ships of the Noboa family. That is known, they hide it, why would they hide it? How much wealth will they move? And they try to build a false positive against Venezuela to try to bring about an eternal war, an unjust war and a criminal war that with God’s favor will not happen.
“The United States police intelligence agencies know that, the FBI knows it, the DEA knows it, the US military knows it,” he added.
On the other hand, Maduro said that the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, “has been the great Colombian fighter against drug trafficking and has great achievements as president.”
They will not pass through Venezuela
Last Thursday, October 30, the sectoral vice president of Defense and Sovereignty, Vladimir Padrino López, assured that Venezuela will not serve as a drug trafficking route and questioned the military presence of the United States (USA) in the Caribbean.
«Drug trafficking, through Venezuela, WILL NOT HAPPEN! The growing drug consumption in the US will not count on Venezuela as a route to supply that vile market. Could this be the true cause of the military threat against Venezuela? “Let the world draw its conclusions!” he published on his Instagram account.
Likewise, he explained that so far this year, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Fanb) have disabled more than twenty aircraft that were operating for the trafficking of illicit substances.
“With the two aircraft neutralized yesterday, there are already 23 drug trafficking aircraft disabled during 2025,” said Padrino López.
