Cabello: We need Colombian authorities to combat drug production

Published at: 04/04/2025 01:00 PM

The sectoral vice-president for Politics, Public Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, said that there is very little that the Colombian authorities are doing in the fight against drug trafficking.

“They say they are very satisfied with the work we are doing in the fight against drug trafficking, but we need them to do more, to combat drug production,” he insisted, during a press conference on the advances of the.

Cabello asserted that the Colombian authorities are doing very little, since “there are more than 50,000 hectares and there is talk of more than 240,000 of coca planted, a flourishing industry whose bosses are Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque.”

The also Minister of the People's Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, stressed that just a week ago 500 kg of marijuana were confiscated in Barinas and 112 pots of cocaine were confiscated in Falcón.

On the other hand, he stated that at San Antonio International Airport, in the state of Táchira, they use the modality of passing drugs through the stomach. “They try to go from one kilo to 900 grams, and there are arrests every day,” he added.

Mazo News Team