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Diosdado Cabello, Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace of Venezuela, reports breakthroughs in the country’s fight against drug trafficking and organized crime in the state of Zulia. teleSUR

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00:00Here's the map, okay, the area of Santa Barbara, of Zulia, we've said before that the drug

00:19traffickers are going through the river supplying those areas, depending on maritime transportation.

00:33They go through here and through all these areas, they leave their mark of corruption

00:41and drug trafficking, many people are being paid to look the other way.

00:55Those who decide to cooperate with Third is First give a lot of information on other people.

01:05They were given $4,000 even just to look the other way, and if you are a public official

01:11you're not supposed to.

01:17So if we hear there's no gasoline, okay, all of the gasoline is being used by mayors

01:26for these kinds of activities.

01:35And they were using submersibles and motor yachts, thousands of kilos of cocaine were

01:52confiscated by the police on this operation, 407 kilos were seized by police.

02:03There you have the image, and when we started detaining people, mayors, their police officers,

02:13and when we started interrogating them, we are trying to locate all the drug trafficking,

02:31all the packages distributed in the area.

02:41We have someone who's helping us from the ranks who is telling me exactly where a deposit

02:49of drugs is located, and I'm not going to reveal the identity of this person because

02:54they might kill him.

03:54I'm not going to reveal the identity of this person because they might kill him.

Venezuela | More than 2,000 kilos of drug seized by government authorities

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