Corruption in Venezuela has created a cocaine superhighway to the United States
A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from Venezuela has risen from about two flights per week in 2017 to nearly daily in 2018, according to one US official. This year, the same official has seen as many as five nighttime flights in the sky at once.Planes loaded with Colombian cocaine used to depart from Venezuela's remote southern jungle regions.
always !! always !! In May 2018, Diosdado Cabello, the leader of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly and embattled President Nicolas Maduro's number two, was also sanctioned for being"directly involved in narcotics trafficking activities." He has replied there is no evidence of his involvement in trafficking, and said of sanctions against him in general:"If there are persecuted politicians, those are the Venezuelan officials sanctioned by the US. You can keep your sanctions.
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