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Statement by Venezuela’s Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez. teleSUR
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00:00To try to justify an intervention and seize the great wealth that Venezuela has as oil, gas, gold, water resources, bio-natural resources, resources that have been cherished historically by hegemonic power.
00:30One of the worst lies that have been made against Venezuela is to pretend to say that Venezuela is a country of drug traffickers and that the government of Venezuela are drug traffickers.
00:48That's why we have decided to present the real figures.
00:54Where are the drug trafficking relations?
00:58Where's the production of drugs?
01:00Where do we find the real routes of drug trafficking or different types of illegal substances?
01:07The lawful framework that must accompany the fight and international struggle against drug trafficking as it is the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of the UN.
01:25The Convention of the UN against Illicit Traffic of Drugs and the Convention for the Prevention of Illegal Drugs.
01:40There is a law framework that implies the collaboration, cooperation and aid among countries to face the international drug trafficking crime.
02:02That must also be carried out according to the national and international law framework through justice and police in their different organizations and jurisdictions.
02:18In any case, it is foreseen the military action to repress sanction and prosecute a crime that are categorized as a common crime as it is drug trafficking.
02:35This is all because we know very well what they pretend today regarding Venezuela, the deployment of ships in front of Venezuela that aim to attack the sovereignty of our country to carry out an armed action against the Venezuelan people,
02:58in the face of which the Venezuelan people, in the face of which the Venezuelan truth must come first.
03:05The first is to go to the sources, to data, to statistics that come from specialized agencies within the United States as the United Nations and international organizations
03:19that have provided, that have provided, have been doing follow ups and studies on the subject, yearly report of drugs of the United Nations against drug trafficking and against drugs and crime.
03:34The first report came in 1999 and we decided to bring them all from 1999 until 2025.
03:46Year 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 14, 15, 16, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
04:14Year 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, 2022, 23, 24, and the current year 2025.
04:28During these 27 years in a row, Venezuela does not show as a relevant country that has to do with illegal drugs.
04:40Venezuela, Venezuela, I will say it again, in its international category, is not a country relevant regarding drug trafficking nor crimes related to drug trafficking.
04:56Venezuela, Venezuela, it is in all these reports from 1999 until 2025.
05:03Now, whom show up mainly in these reports?
05:12The first is to highlight is that drug trafficking constitutes within the legal funds of the world as the second most profitable activity.
05:30The first rent profitable activity is organized crime, fraud, and corruption, and the second more profitable action activity is drug trafficking.
05:45But who are the main actors that take part, that in a way are involved?
05:53Because in the end, organized crime crosses with what has to do with drug trafficking.
06:00So, it's a great international criminal organization of which Venezuela, fortunately, is not a part of.
06:13And we say this with pride.
06:15Because Venezuela has shown truly, not only in our figures, but also in what is referred, because you know this, you have studied in the mirror's figures.
06:27It's not only what Venezuela says of what it sees.
06:30But the destination, the countries that are the destination, the final destination, their statistics coincide with ours.
06:46This information has been shared by the Vice President Diosdado Cabello, by Padrino Lopez as well.
06:59When we go to the official maps, the routes of cocaine, only 5%, only 5% aims to go through Venezuelan territory.
07:15And of that 5%, we have a reach of 70% seizure and destruction of that drug that intended to cross Venezuelan territory.
07:29That is submitted to great pressures due to the long border with the main producer of cocaine in the world.
07:44There we can see that Colombia is the first country in terms of production of cocaine in the world.
07:53Peru is the second and Bolivia is the third.
07:58What does this mean?
08:00That Venezuela, firstly, is not a country that produces cocaine.
08:07Secondly, it is not an important route, a relevant route in the export of cocaine.
08:18There you have the three producers, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia.
08:25And now, let's go and see the routes.
08:31The routes of cocaine, 87% cause exits from Colombia, from Ecuador, to go to the United States.
08:548% that goes through Guajira Colombiana and 5% that tries to go through Venezuelan territory.
09:08There it is.
09:10So, which is the main route for the export of cocaine?
09:18Very clearly, it's the Pacific.
09:21If an international coordinated activity with the involved countries were to take place, truly, the gathering of forces, the ships, should be on the Pacific.
09:39If they truly did not want that drug to reach the United States.
09:46If that is their true intention to stop the arrival of cocaine to the United States.
09:56That, unfortunately, faces a real issue of public health due to the high figures of people dead due to overdose.
10:09It is not Venezuela, the one responsible nor the route for that drug to arrive in the United States.
10:21Venezuela, on the contrary, has given an extraordinary management, an extraordinary development to stop the pressure that comes from producing countries so that this territory does not turn into a territory for the transit of drugs or the harvesting of drugs.
10:48So far this year, over 56 tons have been destroyed.
10:55When we compare this to what happened when the DEA existed in Venezuela.
11:03And without the DEA, we know we do it better than when the DEA was here in Venezuela, this U.S. agency that specializes in drugs.
11:16We know to do it better, that's what the figures say.
11:21We seize more drugs.
11:23We have more coordinated work to achieve a clear objective where countries overall have the interest to face this and that it is done in accordance to the law.
11:41Now, the United States, what happens when that drug reaches the United States?
11:48We have journalists here from the States.
11:51There are journalists that cover U.S. sources.
11:55What happens with that drug once it reaches the United States?
11:59Be it cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine, marijuana.
12:07No, because it is produced in U.S. soil.
12:10The United States today, they have their own supply of marijuana.
12:17And from the 75 to present days, its rate of addiction increased from 1% to 15%.
12:31Today, the cannabis, the marijuana that is produced in the United States, is stronger and more addictive and is produced in U.S. soil, not in Venezuela.
12:46In Venezuela, we don't produce cannabis.
12:49We don't produce any drugs.
12:52So, a country that, on the contrary, is very relevant with everything that has to do with illicit drugs.
13:05It has to do with the financial system in the States.
13:0985% of profits of this illegal business stays in the United States.
13:17And this was said by a report of the United Nations and ratified in the year 2025.
13:25There it is, the study, the financial illegal flows that resulted from drug trafficking and other international actions.
13:3785% of those profits remain in the United States.
13:41Where?
13:42In their financial system.
13:45Who take part in this?
13:48Well, this is something really big.
13:51You have the financial system.
13:54So, we must say that in the year 2009, in the financial crisis, their recovery came thanks to drug trafficking money in the U.S. banks.
14:06Do not believe that it was the Federal Reserve.
14:10It was the Federal Reserve thanks to the drug trafficking money.
14:15We have those people referred to as the brokers that are in charge of the distribution through all the territory.
14:22And transportation companies that cover the whole U.S. territory.
14:28We have the drug gangs that are the ones in charge of the microtransactions.
14:34And it's what currently is destroying the U.S. society.
14:39We have the drug truckers who are the ones that control the whole transportation of drugs through different routes.
14:46And we also have what we call the drug sanctions, which are the wealthy white people that traffic, that sell drugs among politicians in high-level parties.
15:04That also allow, if I'm allowed to recall the name of Jebcy Epstein.
15:13It's all systems to guarantee the U.S. for the cycle since drugs entered the United States territory.
15:19And it's good to say that the fentanyl that arrives in the U.S. from Mexico, it all enters through legal ports.
15:27Once the drugs enter the United States, once it is transported and distributed through these different chains of gangs and truckers, the money is laundered in the banks.
15:41Look at this data as well from the yearly World Drug Report of the United Nations.
15:47Organized crime generates $1.6 billion, of which drug trafficking, we have already seen this, takes the second place in the list of illegal activities.
16:01With a figure of $426,000,000,000 over $476,000,000,000 in a year.
16:25This represents 0.8 of the GDP of the U.S. economy.
16:31And this is not said by Venezuela.
16:34It is said by the international organizations specialized on the subject.
16:42The size of money that is laundering criminal activities and drug trafficking in the United States is equivalent, and we can see the whole illegal activity, 2.7% of the U.S. GDP.
17:01You can imagine the size.
17:04Venezuela knows this, that we are in a process of progressive recovery with self-sacrifice, where each point of the GDP is a pride.
17:14There is very quick, thanks to the illicit activity of drug trafficking.
17:20Now, what are the connections?
17:24How is this money laundered?
17:2757% of suspicious activities of money laundering on fentanyl is carried out through trans-traditional banking operations.
17:40It would be easier for the United States to face and persecute money laundering in the United States than to send ships to attack a nation of peace, a people of peace, as it is Venezuela, unless their intentions are others which are not to fight illegal traffic of drugs.
18:03But if they truly wanted to face it, they have so many tools in their own countries to tackle money laundering.
18:13They have so many possibilities with health policies to heal their population that die due to overdose because there is no one to attend to them with rehab policies.
18:32And I would say, from the economic point of view, it's cheaper and more efficient that you face this money laundering, that you have policies against drug consumption, that this craziness and show, dangerous show that they are doing in Venezuela and the Caribbean.
18:59Other data, U.S. banks received historical fines after admitting their involvement with money laundering after being involved with drug trafficking activities.
19:18The United States has become the world epicenter of drug trafficking and money laundering.
19:28That's why it is a very relevant country when it comes to drug trafficking.
19:34A former director of the UN office against drugs said that in 2009, this is what I just said, that drug trafficking money saved the world of the financial crisis in 2009.
19:52There's a lot of hypocrisy of double standards of political instrumentation geopolitics in this issue to invade, to bring about regime change in countries that are not aligned.
20:07So I believe the United States has a lot of aspects on which it must come truthful.
20:19If they truly want, as they say, they are very concerned for U.S. citizens that die due to overdose.
20:26Only in year 2024, over 110,000 people die due to overdose.
20:32If they truly care, they have a lot of tasks to carry out within the United States to correct and solve a lot.
20:43They do not need to see you to other places because today the United States is the most relevant country when it comes to drug trafficking.
20:56It is the most relevant country for its financial system, its logistic networks, for the weapons that are provided to the drug cartels of Mexico.
21:11In 10 years, estimates say 2 million, 3 million dollars of illegal arms trade with drug cartels in Mexico.
21:25Think about what it meant, Plan Colombia 1, Plan Colombia 2, over a hundred million dollars in taxes, in U.S. taxes that were directed to fight and eliminate illegal crops of drugs in Colombia.
21:39And it turns out that they turned into the main producer of cocaine in the world.
21:46From its genesis, this story of fighting drug trafficking has been filled with double standards and lies.
21:56That's what allowed them to put U.S. military bases in Colombian states, neighbors of Venezuela.
22:03But it's not that they did not burn one single leaf of coca leaf.
22:09It's that they extended the hectares of crops, of coca leaves, thanks to the role of the United States in Plan Colombia 1, Plan Colombia 2.
22:19Thanks to that, they made Colombia the first producer of cocaine in the world.
22:26So, we also have the report of the DEA.
22:37I don't like to quote the DEA due to the large connections that the DEA has with drug cartels.
22:45But it's an official document from the United States.
22:49In that official document of the United States, they acknowledge what I just said.
22:56That money laundering happens mainly in the United States.
23:00We only know this in the financial system.
23:03They also talk about that they make use of cryptocurrencies, of casinos, of the real estate agent sector.
23:12That's what the DEA says.
23:14They admit that the drug cartels from Mexico operate in all 50 states of the United States.
23:19And they have identified all the routes that are used to trade the drugs.
23:25But they don't have the capacity, the report says, to fight it.
23:29There's a report that talks about the death due to overdose.
23:42Who are the ones responsible for the death of overdose?
23:48Who are the Venezuelans that have nothing to do with this, in this horrible history?
23:59And if we had something to do, it would be...
24:03And if we had to do something, we would have activated all the mechanisms of cooperation, of aid,
24:08on how to help each other internationally, as we do with some European countries here in the Caribbean, for example.
24:20So we must put things where they belong.
24:33It is proven.
24:38Venezuela is not a country relevant regarding drug trafficking.
24:45Why?
24:48Because Venezuela is a country free of crops.
24:52It's not a country that holds drugs.
24:57It's not a country for drug transit.
25:00Because who tries to go through our territory knows that it's going to be condemned and persecuted.
25:10Over 402 drug trafficking planes have been shot down by the security agencies of Venezuela.
25:18How many laboratories have been destroyed?
25:21As soon as a laboratory is found, it's immediately destroyed.
25:27They don't have time to drink soda.
25:30The same thing happens for transport.
25:32It's not a country of transport of drugs towards the United States.
25:37And it's not a country where drug consumption is an issue of public health.
25:44But what is Venezuela?
25:48Venezuela is an international reference, anti-colonialist, anti-hegemonic.
25:54That during the Obama administration, the foreign policy of Venezuela was determined to be a threat for the United States.
26:09That's where the story began in this timetable.
26:14In 2014, economic blockade, 2015, the Obama Decree that considers Venezuela a threat to national security to be able, years later, to be able to do all this, to be able to intervene the country.
26:29Then came the declaration of President Maduro and other high officials as drug traffickers.
26:35They weave their narratives.
26:38The false narrative.
26:40The same that, just like they say that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to intervene, to invade, to steal their oil.
26:49That's the only truth.
26:52Because hundreds of reports specialized on the issue determined that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that it was an invention to invade Iraq.
27:03And just as that was invented, the false flag events, dozens in history of humanity.
27:12All we want, purpose, intervention, invasion, occupation, regime change.
27:18For geopolitical reasons.
27:21For geopolitical reasons, that is what is happening right now.
27:26Then they take a criminal organization that was strongly faced here in Venezuela, as it was Trent Laragua.
27:39And then they designate it as an international, transnational organization.
27:43Then they blow up a ship.
27:47These are the commodities to violate international law.
27:51Because the true problem that humanity has today is that the United States and its satellite governments undermine and violate international law.
28:04They do not respect anything.
28:06There's no limits.
28:08Life is the only imposition and go across the planet as it belongs to them.
28:18This year, remember the law of foreign enemy.
28:22A very old law, no longer being used.
28:25They bring it about, take away the dust, and then they apply it to consider Venezuela a foreign enemy.
28:31Then Venezuela has nothing to do with the death of its citizens due to overdose.
28:37But when we go and review the routes, the routes, we know cocaine does not go through Venezuela.
28:54It's through the Pacific.
28:56Those ships that today aim to threaten Venezuela, they should be on the Pacific if they truly wanted to face drug trafficking and prevent the drug and cocaine to arrive in the United States.
29:10They should be there.
29:15And a mistaken concept also, which is to use warships to face a common crime.
29:31It seems that they are having a GPS issue because they are where they are not supposed to be.
29:38They should calibrate their GPS and go to the Pacific if they don't want cocaine to arrive in the United States.
29:45When we go to the countries, destination countries of cocaine and its mirror images, Venezuela is also not there.
29:57Venezuela does not exist on this issue.
30:09Who is today the main exporter of cocaine in the world?
30:16It is not Venezuela.
30:18Once again, they are mistaken.
30:21It is Ecuador.
30:22Marco Rubio was recently in Ecuador.
30:24I don't know if they went there to check on their business, what he went to do there.
30:29But Ecuador is the main exporter of cocaine in the world today.
30:33It is in the last report of the Custom International Organization.
30:40Why Ecuador?
30:43Because it is the main exporter of banana to the world.
30:49And it has beautiful routes and amazing containers to put the cocaine shipment.
30:59Their president, they say that through Ecuador 70% of cocaine goes through their country that goes to the world.
31:11And this is said by their own president that is also a partner of one of the banana companies that ships cocaine to Europe and the United States.
31:24The same story with Alvaro Uribe, partner of drug traffickers, the same as Juan Guaidó, pictures with drug traffickers.
31:37That's why for them Venezuela is very important.
31:40Firstly, due to its geographic position, they need the Venezuelan territory to transport drugs.
31:50And in all the conspiracies to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela, drug trafficking from Colombia and Ecuadorian drug trafficking and the Albanese mafia that came to care for the export of cocaine in Ecuador are behind.
32:08You see that the story is another one.
32:13You were told a story that was not real.
32:17The true story is very different.
32:20So here you have it.
32:23Cocaine and banana industry in Ecuador.
32:27See how they both increase.
32:30Seizures of cocaine in banana treatments.
32:34The main, Ecuador, a drug state.
32:39That's why the electoral fraud in Ecuador.
32:43They cannot surrender the political spaces.
32:45They are under control of drug trafficking.
32:49And that is why President Petro today, his life is threatened due to drug traffickers.
32:59And that is why they want to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
33:02They want to exchange it like this.
33:08To control this territory and surrender it to drug trafficking.
33:13We knew this following the agreements of Maria Corina Machado and Guaidó with drug trafficking groups in Colombia.
33:20And this has come out to the public.
33:22We cannot forget that Operation Hedion, where drug trafficking from Colombia had a very important participation.
33:30They need Venezuela for drug trafficking.
33:34An extraordinary business where 85% of the profits remain in the United States.
33:40And they need Venezuela for its energy reserves, for its oil, gas, for its mineral reserves, its gold, iron, for its water reserves.
33:52They are desperate.
33:54And that is why President Nicolás Maduro has activated the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian militia.
34:04For all people, men and women, regardless of age, we are on alert to defend the peace of the country, to defend our territorial integrity.
34:17Yesterday, President, as Commander-in-Chief of our Bolivarian National Armed Forces, rose the operational readiness, increasing to over 25,000 military personnel to safeguard the bi-national
34:33area.
34:35So drug trafficking has more pressure to not come to our territory.
34:40Because we need to guarantee peace.
34:42And above all, to dismantle these lives.
34:46And other kinds of drugs.
34:48Amphetamines, methamphetamines.
34:50See, where is Venezuela?
34:52Where is Venezuela?
34:53Completely white.
34:54Those synthetic drugs are not produced nor come through Venezuela either.
34:58Zero cocaine.
34:59Zero methamphetamines.
35:00Zero fentanyl.
35:01Zero fentanyl.
35:02Zero heroin.
35:03Venezuela is not here on the heroin chart.
35:04Venezuela is not a relevant issue when it comes to illegal drug trafficking.
35:19Congratulations to our people, our security agencies that constantly face this international crime.
35:28Now, how can the Cartel de los Soles exist if there is no drugs here, if there is no organization?
35:38It's another propaganda operation against Venezuela to criminalize the legitimate government of Venezuela.
35:50But we always say it.
35:53We always say that a lie has a very short life.
36:00I go back to the DEA report, and I don't like to quote it, but it's an official report from the United States.
36:06The 2024-2025 report does not mention Venezuela.
36:11How can they, how could they, if we have nothing to do with it?
36:15Nor they mention the, the fake Los Soles cartel.
36:21What does this DEA highlight as routes?
36:27Central America, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.
36:31Venezuela is not here.
36:33And most of its seizures in the United States were in California, confirming that the main route of drugs are in the Pacific.
36:50It must calibrate and fix GPS, not penalize the Pacific.
36:56If you truly want to be efficient and put an end to the consumption of cocaine and other drugs in the United States.
37:13Other aspects touched by this report points to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia as the main producer of cocaine.
37:19We know this.
37:21Venezuela is not shown here either.
37:24In conclusion, Venezuela is not pointed out as a producer or distributor of a transit country or involved in money laundering in the DEA report.
37:53Do you realize that it's a great false, a great lie?
38:03It's all lies that with the only intent of attacking Venezuela, to secure a geographic territory, to make it easy for drug trafficking routes,
38:15and to seize the immense energy reserves, and to seize the immense energy reserves of a country.
38:19And they believe that to undermine our Bolivarian internationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-colonialism, anti-colonialism,
38:29every significant Gentiles andξ, and the breadcrum�도hips of a Scramblista钱.
38:32Spirit of love for the people, and have profound love for international legality.
38:35The legacy of the doctrines of our father, Simon Bolivar.
38:44this is the truth of venezuela enough is enough seven lies enough of trash talks i should say
38:53because it comes to a point where citizens get tired of some so much trash and we are
39:01anger in the face of such trash and we are ready for the call that president made calling
39:09to the enlistment our bolivarian militia we are ready to defend venezuela to defend
39:17peace to defend the national and territorial integrity and to defend the future of our sons
39:23and daughters to defend social happiness and the economic growth we are ready venezuela is ready
39:30and we and we wait that all these lies come to an end and that the u.s government
39:39acts seriously and restrain in fulfillment with the law of its own country and international law
39:49thank you very much
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