The director of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Terry Cole, accused the regime of Nicolás Maduro of collaborating with Colombian guerrillas to send drugs to Mexican cartels that traffic to the United States.
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Cole’s accusations against Maduro come after White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt stated on Tuesday that the United States was prepared to “use all its power” to stop the “flow of drugs into the country”, amid controversy over the deployment of three ships with 4,000 soldiers in the waters of the Caribbean near Venezuela.
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What did the DEA say against the Maduro regime?
“Venezuela has become a narco-terrorist state that continues to collaborate with the FARC and ELN in Colombia to send record amounts of cocaine from Venezuela, through Colombia, to Mexican cartels, which continue to enter the United States,” Cole said in an interview with Fox News.
The director of the DEA added that despite the Trump administration strengthening its ability to dismantle drug trafficking networks, they have “seized more cocaine this year than in previous years” and warned that the amount of methamphetamine and fentanyl entering the country continues to increase.
“The Venezuelan corruption, the Venezuelan dictatorship, is narco-terrorist. They keep sending this poison to the United States, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, not to mention the members of the Tren de Aragua that they send to our country to destroy its beautiful streets,” Cole commented.
UN calls on USA and Venezuela to “reduce tensions”
The United Nations urged the governments of the United States and Venezuela to “reduce tensions” and act with “restraint” following the latest exchanges of warnings after a deployment of US military ships off the Venezuelan coast.
The Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, is “closely following” these events, according to one of his spokespersons, Daniela Gross, who referred to the current political escalation between the two countries in a press conference where she called for “resolving differences through peaceful means.”