Caracas.- The Venezuelan authorities seized more than two tons of drugs, 1,937 kilos of marijuana and 235 kilos of cocaine, in two police interventions, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, reported on Thursday.” The two drug seizures in (the states) Anzoátegui and Merida ratify the Venezuelan state’s commitment to combating drug trafficking, a pitiful cancer that affects the entire planet,” the prosecutor said in a statement.
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In the first intervention, in the central anzoátegui state, the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, militarized police) seized 1,937 kilos of marijuana. In addition, ten persons accused of “aggravated illicit trafficking in narcotic and psychotropic substances”, “association for delinquency” and “legitimation” were arrested. In Mérida, the GNB seized 235 kilos of cocaine and arrested three people, also accused of smuggling and association for delinquents. The prosecutor noted that the nearly two tons of seized marijuana were covered “with a typical clothing” used in Colombia, which, in his view, is not “casual”.
With this type of fabric they traffic (in Colombia) not only drugs, but another type of contraband,” said Saab.
In his view, Colombia is a “regrettable failed state mirror” and said that Venezuela “is a victim of this situation, as it does not produce cocaine or marijuana and has low levels of consumption”. However, according to Saab, Venezuela “must confront powerful transnational mafias that traffic drugs and try to use” the territory of the Caribbean country.
#VEA Statements by Attorney General Tarek William Saab on major drug seizures and actions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in defence of the environment and animals #25Jun https://t.co/FidXKlqykz — MinPublicoVE (@MinpublicoVE)
June 25, 2020
Last March, the U.S. government filed drug-terrorism charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and offered $15 million for any information leading to his capture. Prosecutors from Florida and New York, where the charges were filed, say that over the past 20 years, since the late President Hugo Chavez took office, the Venezuelan executive has engaged in a “violent and corrupt conspiracy” with the FARC to deal cocaine. Supposedly, in Venezuela, the plot is led by the “Cartel of the Suns”, whose name refers to the badges worn in uniforms by the Venezuelan high-ranking military. The Venezuelan prosecutor offered 2020 balance sheet figures in the fight against drugs and noted that 6,990 marijuana, 5,157 kilos of cocaine and 745 grams of heroin have been seized. You may also be interested:3 detained in operation that prevented the shipment of cocaine from EcuadorEEUU offers 10 mdd for data on 2 former FARCColombiano leaders is sentenced to 9 years in Panama for drug trafficking
