NATALIA MATAMOROS | EL UNIVERSAL
Saturday October 05, 2013 12:00 AM
The shipment of 1.3 tons of cocaine bound to France onboard a flight departing from Venezuela is just a pearl that decorates the necklace of a myriad of similar cases.
Bayardo Ramírez, a criminal lawyer and former president of the National Anti-Drug Commission (Conacuid), stressed that based on data of groups engaged in counter-narcotics efforts worldwide, Venezuela ranks as the first drug trafficker in Latin America, overtaking Mexico and Colombia.
According to Ramírez, some sectors inside the Venezuelan government have distinct strategies on drug trafficking, with no attempt at setting policies to curb the scourge.
“There are groups in the current regime that traffic in drugs coming from Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia -the latter in cooperation with the FARC. The country (Venezuela) became a warehouse, lab, and collection and distribution center of substances.”
The expert claimed that in Venezuela, together with other countries in the Latin American region, “some groups have set routes to ship cocaine and marihuana through Central America up to Canada and the United States. There is another route to Africa and there it (the drug) is distributed to Europe.”
Remember the 80’s when there really was a war on drugs? The DEA was in Colombia burning coca fields, and intercepting boats loads of cocaine.
In Obama’s America we have epidemic drug addictions rates, unprecedented amounts of pure, cheap, deadly heroin, and opiate addictions that have surpassed car accidents and alcohol, in accidental deaths.
In Obama’s America the Federal Agencies are MIA, and Drug Legalization is trendy.