The United States is the favorite washing machine for drug trafficking

Published at: 12/09/2025 05:00 PM

The US government, despite maintaining a narrative associated with the existence of a drug trafficking cartel in Venezuela, without any evidence to prove the veracity of this statement, is the country par excellence where all the money derived from these illegal activities is laundered.

Supported by a large international media campaign and supported by countries that respond to North American interests, the administration of the Donald Trump administration has declared itself against the Venezuelan authorities and the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), ensuring that they manage the production, transformation and distribution of all drugs that leave Latin America.

However, it has not been possible to prove any of these assertions, since Venezuela only records the transit of 5% of drugs that leave the region through the Caribbean Sea; this is according to the figures reflected in the reports of the United Nations (UN), an institution that is not known to be sympathetic to the Bolivarian Revolution . In these reports, it was detailed that the countries in which drugs are most produced and traded are Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Mexico, of which they are not reported in the media with the force and insistence that is being made on Venezuela. The same is reflected in the annual reports of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Paradoxically, according to complaints, researchers in the area and reports from regional institutions, all the money associated with the drug business is legalized in American and European banks . An example of this is the case of money laundering by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, when in 2016 Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán transformed his business from a modest marijuana operation into one of the richest and most powerful organizations in the world.

In an interview conducted by American journalist Jim Dinkins with the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, he explained that “their business depends on identifying and exploiting legal loopholes in the global financial systems, they hire the best talent they can find to help them achieve their objectives. We hire accountants to enter the banking systems of the United States and Europe. We also employ expert engineers to build tunnels, vessels and other equipment needed to process and smuggle your products across borders. In addition, we have technical specialists who can monitor law enforcement communication networks, allowing them to stay one step ahead of the authorities.”

In addition, he explained that “the U.S. banking system is at the center of these money-laundering attempts. Once illegal money is deposited in a U.S. bank, it 's much easier to transfer it and hide it behind the smokescreen of an apparently legitimate company.”

Experts in the accounting area explained that, in the US banking system, one of the many methods of money laundering used by drug cartels in that country is “structuring”, which consists of depositing amounts of less than 10,000 dollars to evade the regulations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Structuring is the most common reason why banks file Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), but it 's also the most direct way to deposit money into a U.S. bank account. To increase the odds in their favor, drug traffickers hire a veritable army of people to deposit small amounts of cash in banks across the country, in cities large and small.

Trade-based money laundering requires a company to work illicit money in exchange for goods. The auditing accounting agents explained that they are trying to identify companies that operate as money-laundering facades seeking changes in funding patterns, such as a company that has historically done everything through bank transfers and now uses large cash deposits, or a company that shows a sudden increase in profits for no apparent reason in the country of opportunities.

Later, in 2020, the BBC Mundo news portal published an article called “The FinCEN Files: 4 large banks used by oligarchs, corrupt and criminals to move dirty money”, in which it was explained that these files include thousands of “suspicious activity reports” prepared by the same banks for the Crime Control Network Financiers from the U.S. Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) involving U.S. and European financial institutions.

In that article, it was detailed that the investigation identified four large banks: “the financial group HSBC allowed fraudsters to move about 80 million dollars of drug trafficking money, after financial investigators warned that they were the product of a scam. The scam in question, called WCM777, was a Ponzi scheme, a type of fraud that pays early investors with money raised from new members.”

According to the FinCEN Files, the American magnate JP Morgan allowed a company to move more than a billion dollars through an account in London without knowing who the owner was. The documents detailed how between 2002 and 2013 JP Morgan provided banking services to a secret offshore company called ABSI Enterprises , although the ownership of the company was not clear in the bank's records . In total, over a five-year period, JP Morgan sent and received bank transfers associated with ABSI Enterprises totaling 1,020 million dollars as a result of illegal activities, including drug trafficking.

Also, in 2015, the German bank Deutsche Bank was in the lead in suspicious transactions, acknowledged the German public television channel Deutsche Welle and reported that “the bank knew that it was facilitating suspicious transactions that amounted to more than 1 trillion dollars, after having promised to clean up its customer portfolio”.

On this subject, and in accordance with the permanent attacks to which our country is subject, the Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, held a press conference last Monday, September 08, in which she explained that “according to the reports of specialized financial agencies and backed by the United Nations Organization, organized crime generates 1.6 trillion to 2.2 trillion dollars annually, of which drug trafficking is second on the list of illegal activities, with a figure of 426 billion to 652 billion dollars annually; representing 0.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the US economy. The United Nations report explained that the size of money laundered in drug trafficking activities in the United States is equivalent to 2.7% of that country 's GDP.

This statement by Vice President Rodríguez, coincides with the conclusions expected in the DEA reports, which explicitly confirm that the United States is the central hub of money laundering and international drug trafficking.

Also, in a special work carried out by the Mission Truth team, based on official reports called “Between confessions and omissions of the DEA: The US is a narco-state There are money launderers on U.S. soil who provide services to transnational criminal organizations”, it was explained that: “Cryptocurrency exchange houses, digital wallets, mirror transfers are used transfers), purchase and sale of movable and immovable property, and other mechanisms integrated into the North American financial system. U.S. real estate companies are used to invest drug money in luxury properties, especially in areas such as Miami, Los Angeles or New York.”

In this work, the recognition is devastating: “the DEA admits that its own country is the main center of money laundering for global organized crime and the " Cartel of the Suns "is only a propaganda fiction, the so-called “Cartel of the Suns” does not appear in any DEA report either in 2024 or in 2025, or in any previous one”.

“There are no names, structures, operations, not even an indirect mention. It is a purely propaganda construction, invented at political design tables by the US government, by the extreme Venezuelan opposition and by sectors of the international right,” they detailed in that work.

The fact that it does not mention the so-called "Cartel of the Suns" is irrefutable proof that it does not exist. And if it doesn't exist for the DEA, it can't exist as a justification for sanctions, threats, or interventions. In addition, considering that both the DEA and the UN, which by all accounts are not friends of the Bolivarian Revolution, agree that Venezuela does not produce, transport or launder drug trafficking money; make this statement a constructed fact, not an unquestionable assertion .