Cabello: The United States is a country that spends more on its army than on saving the lives of its population

Published at: 07/11/2025 11:54 AM

In the United States, approximately 74,702 people die annually from fentanyl overdose, representing 205 deaths a day, at a rate of one every seven minutes, warned the Minister of Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón.

During his participation in the Congress Drug Use and Juvenile Delinquency: Justice with a Human Face , from the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Cabello, based on statistics, stressed that the United States invests more in maintaining its military power than in combating the scourge of drug use in its territory.

“Of the national budget, of 7 trillion dollars managed by the United States for 2025, 850 billion are allocated to military spending and only 2 thousand to the prevention and response to fentanyl overdoses. 0.02 percent of the budget. A country, supposedly at peace, that spends 425 times more on its army than it saves the lives of its population, clearly doesn't understand the problem,” he said.

In the same way, I am disappointed that Washington intends to use the issue of drugs as an argument to justify aggression against our country. “Nobody believes that about terrorism, dictatorship, and drug trafficking. What they are looking for is to bring about regime change in the country,” he said.

Mazo News Team