Chancellor Gil on the alleged US fight against drug trafficking: It's an excuse based on a big lie

Published at: 22/09/2025 12:33 PM

The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, reiterated this Monday that the alleged fight of the United States (USA) against drug trafficking in the Caribbean is an excuse to threaten Venezuela.

During a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), within the framework of the 80th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), Gil stressed that this is “an excuse really based on a big lie. The pretext has been used to combat illegal trafficking in drug substances, in narcotic substances that leave Latin America, specifically from South America, and Venezuela has been falsely accused of being a facilitator of these routes and for which reason it must be threatened militarily”.

In this regard, he recalled from New York that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, “in its 25 reports prior to this year, since 1999, has declared Venezuela a territory free of illicit crops, a territory free of drug production and a territory that also does not play a major role in what has to do with the laundering of assets derived from drug trafficking.”

He highlighted that the main organizations responsible for monitoring this situation “have certified Venezuela as a country completely free of these crimes. Venezuela's commitments are absolutely associated with those we have assumed as an international community to combat drug trafficking,” he said.

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister indicated that the Bolivarian Government has a program to combat drugs that has managed to seize 70% of the drugs that try to pass through Venezuela, of the 5% that the reports say.

He noted that these figures are also supported by the United States' own reports. “Your anti-drug agency, the DEA, your Treasury Department, the State Department itself, in all previous reports, do not mention Venezuela as a relevant country in the trafficking, processing or laundering of assets derived from drug trafficking,” he said.

“The great lie that has been tried to weave about Venezuela has been demonstrated and that has precisely become the argument to threaten the zone of peace that we proclaim in Latin America,” he stressed.

Mazo News Team