Venezuela rejects US State Department report on drugs: It is baseless

Published at: 16/09/2025 03:47 PM

In a statement released by the Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiated the report issued by the United States Department of State (USA), “which seeks to identify this year's transit countries and producers of illegal drugs, in an imaginary and illegitimate self-designation as judge and police of the world.”

“All the assertions in the above-mentioned report are baseless and contradict the official data of specialized international organizations,” says the official text of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, in which they cite international reports that certify Venezuela as a territory free of drug trafficking.

Below is the full text:

THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES: INTERNATIONAL REPORTS CERTIFY VENEZUELA AS A DRUG-FREE TERRITORY

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, like the entire international community and the worthy countries of Latin America, rejects and repudiates the report issued by the US State Department that seeks to identify this year's transit countries and producers of illegal drugs, in an imaginary and illegitimate self-designation as judge and police of the world. All the assertions in the above-mentioned report are baseless and contradict the official data of specialized international organizations.

According to continuous official reports (1999-2025) from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Venezuela is certified as a territory free of illicit crops. In addition, it has been duly proven that there are no cartels or plantations intended for drug processing in our country.

This information is reflected in the reports of the United States Anti-Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) (2024-2025) where Venezuela is not identified as a producer, distributor or transit country of drugs. Venezuela is not a producer, a trafficker, a cultivator, or a center for the collection of drugs. In conclusion, according to all the reports of specialized agencies in the field, our country is not a relevant actor in this area.

This same report reaffirms that cocaine production comes primarily from Colombia, where the drug trafficking economy was consolidated for years under the protection of different governments allied to the United States, in addition to Peru, where production has been increasing since the arrival of illegitimate governments after the coup d'etat to President Pedro Castillo.

It is striking that, since the beginning of Plan Colombia in 2009, when at least eight U.S. military bases were installed, there has been a permanent growth in cocaine production, as indicated by UN reports.

The same UNODC for the year 2025 indicates that 87% of cocaine exports from Colombia are mobilized through the Pacific Ocean, 8% come out through the Colombian Guajira and only 5% attempt to mobilize through Venezuelan territory.

The program to combat drug trafficking, developed by the Bolivarian Government, has managed to capture at least 70% of the drugs that it intends to pass through our territory.

On the crime of money laundering derived from drug trafficking, which, according to the UNODC, the global drug trade generates between 426 and 652 billion dollars annually; between 20 and 30% of that money is laundered in the United States, representing 2.7% of this country's GDP. Indeed, banks such as HSBC, Wells Fargo, DT Bank, among others, have received historic fines for admitting their connection to the laundering of money derived from drug trafficking.

With all these official statistics that come from institutions such as the UN, and the United States government itself through the DEA, the State Department, and the Department of the Treasury, it is clear that the recent narrative being tried to impose against Venezuela is nothing more than a shameful lie, part of a new phase of obsession, permanent and failed policy of “regime change” implemented by the elites around power in Washington against a free and sovereign state like Venezuela.

To this great propaganda farce in the worst Hollywood style, a new element has now been added: the threat of military aggression against Venezuela, exploiting an issue that should be dealt with exclusively by international and multilateral security, judicial and police cooperation mechanisms. Venezuela reaffirms before the international community its solid will to defend its sovereignty, integrity, and peace through all available resources, and will carry out all the actions to which it is entitled within the framework of the principles of the United Nations Charter , and therefore demands the immediate cessation of these aggressions and lies against the sacred people of Simon Bolivar.

They have not been able to, nor will they!

Caracas, September 16, 2025

Mazo News Team