Diosdado Cabello: The hateful opposition is financed by drug trafficking

Published at: 11/11/2026 07:55 PM

On the night of Wednesday, November 11, the general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced the links that a sector of the Venezuelan opposition maintains with drug trafficking.

“The Venezuelan opposition is financed by drug trafficking,” he said, while stressing that this situation has been repeatedly denounced by the national government and especially through its program.

In this regard, he argued that these accusations “will gain greater international attention once they are replicated by major media outlets such as the New York Times.”

He recalled that evidence has been repeatedly presented linking opposition spokespersons to drug trafficking sectors and indicated that these relationships are increasingly difficult to hide since “companies linked to money laundering appeared among senior leaders of that hateful opposition.

“The good thing is that Chavism is not taking this out, but rather opposition sectors that tomorrow will say that Chavism pays for them (...) There they are!” , said and warned that the radical opposition insists on including people prosecuted for crimes of corruption and drug trafficking in lists of so-called “political prisoners”, when in the country there are only individuals subject to judicial proceedings for the commission of crimes.

“This defense is not free, there are obvious links there,” he said.

Mazo News Team