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He helped established Venezuela’s drugs-for-weapons deal with Colombia’s FARC. Maduro was not simply standing by as the Caracas socialist regime move into the drug business.
The nephews and DEA informants met on multiple occasions in Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela while every meeting "produced an audio recording plus three to seven videos". [19] Campo and Flores planned to ship cocaine supplied by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to the United States and sought for assistance with their plans. [20]
Illegal drug trade in Venezuela is the practice of illegal drug trading in Venezuela. Venezuela has been a path to the United States for cocaine originating in Colombia, through Central America and Mexico and Caribbean countries such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. In the 2010s, Venezuela also gradually became a major ...
In 1990, a failed CIA anti-drug operation in Venezuela resulted in at least a ton of cocaine being smuggled into the United States and sold on the streets. The incident, which was first made public in 1993, was part of a plan to assist an undercover agent to gain the confidence of a Colombian drug cartel.
NEW YORK -A former director of Venezuelan military intelligence pleaded not guilty on Thursday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, after a more than 10-year effort by the Department of Justice to ...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whiskey” as he suggested the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.
On 11 November 2015, DEA agents arrested in Haiti two relatives (an adopted son and a nephew) of Cilia Flores, the First Lady of Venezuela, while trying to move 800 kilograms of cocaine from Venezuela to the United States. A source from the DEA unofficially stated, that the large amounts of cocaine are able to pass through Venezuela due to ...
La Guajira Cartel processes the drug in the Colombian departments of Cesar, La Guajira and southern Bolívar, which is then transported to Venezuela passing through the states of Apure, Zulia, the region of the Paraguaná Peninsula [2] in Falcón, Caracas, and then to the Isla de Margarita, where it is exported to other Caribbean islands such as the Dominican Republic and Haiti, [3] bound for ...