Anti-Drug Superintendent: After leaving the DEA, the fight against drugs has advanced in the country

Published at: 14/02/2025 07:01 PM

Venezuela is making great progress in the fight against drugs, the National Anti-Drug Superintendent, Danny Ferrer, reported this Friday, February 14, on the program “Coffee in the Morning”, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión.

He indicated that the positive balance in anti-drug matters began to materialize after the departure of Venezuela from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2005.

In this regard, he argued that in the period 2008-2024, 511 anti-drug operations were carried out and 633 unauthorized runways were destroyed by the Territorial Defensive System.

He specified that 583 laboratories were destroyed on the border with Colombia, under the policy of the National Anti-Drug Superintendency (SUNAD).

Ferrer pointed out that in the year 2024 alone, more than 40 tons of drugs were seized and destroyed through more than 8,500 procedures in the country.

“It is a strategic analysis center, where intelligence information from our popular intelligence is processed 24 hours a day, which is handed over to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), the Territorial Defensive System, in order to carry out these military operations,” he stressed.

He also noted that in 2024, more than 80% of drug seizures were made on the border with Colombia. “There is a great producer and there is a great consumer who has wanted to take over our sovereign spaces for many years as a way for them to do these transports,” he said.

“Thanks to the joint work and effort of that Bolivarian Shield, of all the military operations, this permeated the departments provided by the big producers, the big laboratories that are in the departments that go to the Pacific Ocean,” he stressed.

Ferrer asserted that the National Anti-Drug Plan is linked to the Plan of the 7 Transformations, framed in “data processing with a high social connotation”.

“Our legislation views the consumer as a patient. So we have to establish structures, family counseling centers, addiction treatment centers,” he explained, commenting that the State has a national drug prevention network, with 200 community preventive agents throughout the country.