The Secretary General of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, said during his weekly program, Con el Mazo Dando, that the most recent World Drug Report 2025, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), recognizes Venezuela as a country free of illicit drug crops and with limited mention as a trafficking route to the United States and Europe.
He emphasized that there is a constant fight and sustained efforts against drug trafficking in Venezuela, and he also noted that 26 kilograms of illicit drugs were seized on August 2.
Cabello emphasized that for a country to be considered part of the drug trafficking route, a series of conditions must be met:
- Proximity to production centers.
- Ease of transport.
- Corruption of local authorities.
- Consolidated presence of criminal networks. He asserted that Venezuela does not meet any of these criteria.
He explained that there are other countries that are drug conduits, like Guatemala, but that the U.S. government isn't interested, as they only produce 0.01% of the natural resource that interests the Donald Trump administration: oil.
The US Cartel of the Suns plot falls apart
Cabello commented on the report prepared by Pino Arlacchi, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations (UN) Anti-Drug and Crime Program, in which he asserts that the data from the 2025 World Drug Report contrasts with the false narrative spread by the administration of US President Donald Trump, which links Venezuela to drug trafficking and dismantles the so-called Cartel of the Suns "manufactured by the US."
Pino Arlacci claims that the "Cartel of the Suns" is a figment of Trump's imagination. "It's supposedly led by the president of Venezuela, but it's not mentioned in the report of the world's leading anti-drug agency, nor in the documents of any European agency, nor in almost any other anti-crime agency in the world. Not even a footnote."
Drugs enter through the Pacific
Between January and August, military and police authorities seized a total of 52.769 kilos of various drugs, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López reported last Saturday when he provided an overview of the Strategic Operation Bolivarian Shield, carried out through nine operations nationwide.
For his part, Diosdado Cabello also recalled that a recent United Nations report revealed that only 5% of the drugs produced in Colombia attempt to pass through Venezuelan territory. Meanwhile, 87% of these substances are transported across the Pacific, meaning mostly through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
