The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejected and repudiated a report issued by the United States Department of State that purports to single out transit countries and producers of illicit drugs.

Washington is assuming this position based on an imaginary and illegitimate self-appointment as judge and police of the world, a presidential statement states.

All the assertions in the aforementioned report are baseless and contradict official data from specialized international organizations, the statement adds.

According to reports issued since 1999 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Venezuela is certified as a territory free of illicit crops. Furthermore, it has been duly verified that there are no cartels or plantations used for drug processing in our country, the statement states.

The reference reports, the text adds, demonstrate that cocaine production primarily comes from Colombia, where the drug trafficking economy was consolidated for years under the protection of various governments allied with the United States, in addition to Peru, where production has been increasing since the arrival of illegitimate governments following the coup d’état against President Pedro Castillo.

The Venezuelan presidency highlights in its statement that since the beginning of Plan Colombia in 2009, when at least eight US military bases were established, there has been a steady increase in cocaine production, as indicated in UN reports.

The UNODC itself indicates that for 2025, 87% of cocaine exports from Colombia will be transported through the Pacific Ocean, 8% will leave through the Colombian Guajira, and only 5% will attempt to travel through Venezuelan territory.

Meanwhile, the Bolivarian Government’s anti-drug trafficking program has managed to capture at least 70% of the drugs attempting to pass through our territory.

With all these official statistics from institutions such as the UN and the United States government itself through the DEA, the State Department, and the Treasury Department, it is clear that the recent narrative being pushed against Venezuela is nothing more than a shameful lie, the statement concludes.

This practice, it adds, is part of a new phase of the obsessive, ongoing, and failed “regime change” policy implemented by the elites in power in Washington against a free and sovereign state like Venezuela.

To this grand Hollywood-style propaganda farce is now added a new element: the threat of military aggression against Venezuela, instrumentalizing an issue that should be handled exclusively by international and multilateral security, judicial, and police cooperation mechanisms.

Venezuela reaffirms before the international community its strong will to defend its sovereignty, integrity, and peace using all available resources and will exercise all actions to which it is entitled within the framework of the principles of the United Nations Charter. Therefore, it demands the immediate cessation of these aggressions and lies against the sacred people of Simón Bolívar, concludes the statement from the Venezuelan presidency.

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