Diosdado Cabello: Venezuela will not be territory for the passage of drugs!
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Published at: 25/08/2025 11:15 AM
The sectoral vice-president for Politics,
Public Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, said that
Venezuela's security agencies are steadfast in their fight against drug trafficking and criminal gangs throughout the country.
“We have seized an extraordinary amount of drugs this year, a quantity of drugs that surpasses any estimate. They know it internally (...), whoever tries to pass drugs through Venezuela knows that they
will have a strong response (...) Venezuela will not be territory for the passage
of drugs,” he said at a press conference.
He also recalled that the report of the United Nations (UN) states that Venezuela is a country free of crops,
laboratories and that traffic through our country is extremely limited,
referring to the fact that these are the three conditions for a country to be considered
Regarding the report, he indicated that
Colombia produces approximately 2,120 tons of drugs and 87% of it comes out through the Pacific Ocean, specifically through Colombia, Ecuador
and Peru itself, directly to consumers.
He pointed out that, according to the UN, only 5% of
this drug tries to escape through the Venezuelan Caribbean. “When I say try, I say it
with all the emphasis in the world, because it's one thing to try to get out and another to get out,
this year only, according to these numbers, 106 tons represent 5% of us,
this year without the end of August we have already seized 52 thousand 769 kg of
drugs, that is 52.7 tons of drugs,” he said.
He reaffirmed that this report should be reproduced
by the world, but they do not do it because they are not interested. “The first one that should
do it is the UN, not us. Is the DEA interested in getting this out? Not because
the DEA is the largest drug cartel in the world, it controls
drugs that go to the United States,” he said.
He reaffirmed that, unlike the United States, drugs are being combated in Venezuela, “not in an occasional or short-term way to cover up other things, here we fight drugs at the root.”
Mazo News Team