Venezuela records great advances in the fight against drugs, as reported on Friday the national anti -drug superintendent Danny Ferrer.
In an interview with VTV, Ferrer indicated that the positive balance in anti -drug matters began to materialize after Venezuela’s departure from the drug control administration (DEA), in 2005.
He explained that in the 2008-2024 period 511 anti-drug operations and 633 unauthorized tracks were destroyed by the territorial defensive system.
He also said that 583 laboratories were destroyed in the border line with Colombia, under the policy in charge of the National Anti -Drug Superintendence (SUNAD).
Ferrer said that only in 2024 more than 40 tons of drugs were seized and destroyed through more than 8,500 procedures in the country.
The National Anti -Drug Superintendence, “he said,” is a strategic analysis center, where intelligence information is processed, “of our popular intelligence”, which is delivered to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Territorial Defensive System, ” to be able to do these military operations. ”
80% of the seizures in the border line with Colombia
He said that in 2024 more than 80% of drug seizures were made in the border line with Colombia.
“There is a great producer and there is a great consumer who wanted to take our sovereign spaces for many years as a way for them to make those transports”, and thanks to joint work and the “effort of that Bolivarian shield, of all military operations, this He permeated the departments that the great producers give, the great laboratories that are in the departments that go to the Pacific Ocean ».
7T
Likewise, Ferrer stressed that the National Anti -Drug Plan is concatenated with the 7 transformations, framed in “data processing with high social connotation”, where all public policies converge for addiction control.
“Our legislation sees the consumer as a patient. Then we have to establish the structures, the family orientation centers, the addiction treatment centers, ”he explained in commenting that the State has a national anti -drug prevention network, with 200 community preventors throughout the national territory.
