CELAC: Venezuela denounces U.S. military deployment and false accusations against President Maduro (+CELAC)

Published at: 01/09/2025 11:33 AM

This Monday, the Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, participated in the Summit convened by the Pro Tempore Presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held by the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Colombia, Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio Mapy, in the context of the threat from the United States (USA), Venezuela

The Venezuelan diplomat rejected the deployment of U.S. military vessels in the Caribbean Sea and denounced the false accusations made against the national president Nicolás Maduro, of belonging to an alleged drug trafficking cartel.

“The Cartel of the Suns is a narrative denied even by United States investigative agencies. The State Department's own report and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have indicated that Venezuela is a territory free of illicit crops, and that we have maintained over time thanks to the combat that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) has been fighting and the Bolivarian National Police (PNB).

He also reiterated that according to a report from the United Nations (UN), 87% of cocaine drug trafficking specifically that leaves production centers in Colombia and goes to the United States uses the Pacific Ocean route that includes the countries of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, aimed at the main consumers, the other 8% goes through the Colombian Caribbean, that is, through La Guajira, and only the 5% try to leave through the Venezuelan Caribbean.

Gil stated during his participation that once again “the narrative used by the United States against Venezuela is totally false and seeks only to harm the nation.”

Mazo News Team