He has been accused of more than a hundred narco flights in the past decade from the Venezuelan state of Apure to the Caribbean. For example, Margarita Island, located off the coast of Venezuela, is a well-known . The most extensive database on organized crime in the Americas. According to the U.S. Department of State, approximately 75 unauthorized flights suspected of drug-trafficking activities entered Honduran airspace in 2010 alone, using what is known as the "air bridge" cocaine route between Venezuela and Honduras. Carrillo-Ramírez's trafficking group was able to produce cocaine on the Colombia-Venezuela border in the municipality of Tibú, in the department of Norte . In 2005, the government of Hugo Chávez severed ties with . The cocaine was produced in Colombia's Catatumbo region, along the northern Venezuela-Colombia border. West Africa became a hot spot: . [5], According to a 2009 US report, 90% of US cocaine is sourced from Colombia, with Venezuela and the Caribbean accounting for around 10% of US-destined cocaine trans-shipments in 2010. Drug trafficking from Venezuela only got bigger after 2006. Illegal drug trade in Venezuela refers to the practice of illegal drug trade in Venezuela.Historically Venezuela has been a path to the United States for illegal drugs originating in Colombia, through Central America and Mexico and Caribbean countries such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.. According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) 2009 World Drug Report, seizures of cocaine in Venezuela dropped from 58 metric tonnes in 2005 to fewer than 32 metric tonnes in 2007. Bitter Fight for Former FARC Areas Drives Surge in Colombia Homicides. . Both were later sanctioned for “for materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a narco-terrorist organization.”. Not only have her nephews been convicted in the United States of cocaine trafficking, but her son, Walter Jacobo Gavidia, a Caracas Metropolitan Area judge, is also under investigation. Then inevitably, the corruption ran deeper. A key moment in the strengthening of drug trafficking in Venezuela came with 2005 expulsion of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), after Chávez declared that it was "using the fight against drug trafficking as a mask to support drug trafficking, and to spy in Venezuela against the government.” This, combined with the suspension of the flyover agreement for drug flight monitoring, meant that Venezuela suddenly became a black hole for US intelligence gathering in the counternarcotics fight. Both cases . an icon of the Latin American left who died from cancer in 2013, in drug trafficking. [31] The smuggling of cocaine has increased in Venezuela in the 2010s, going from about 25% of South American cocaine coming from the country in 2010[10] to about 33% in 2015. Found inside – Page 11Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control William R. Brownfield ... Trafficking through Venezuela increased from an estimated 50 metric tons of cocaine in 2004 to ... Found insideIn turn, the FARC, itself associated with the Venezuelan Drug “Cartel of the Suns” ... was instrumental in the development of drug trafficking in Venezuela. He has testified that Cabello plays a leading role in drugs passing through Venezuela. [3] Between 2008 and 2012, Venezuela's cocaine seizure ranking among other countries declined, going from being ranked fourth in the world for cocaine seizures in 2008[4] to sixth in the world in 2012. We then verify, write and edit, providing the tools to generate real impact. His power was based upon his strong links to senior members of the Venezuelan military, and his criminal empire grew exponentially during the early years of the Chávez’s government. Without such political top cover, and paying off the correct people, drug smuggling operations are shut down. You know that the electric power system of the country is vulnerable to such attacks," Bastidas said at the Moscow Conference on International Security. Like the conspiracy theory of Hezbollah activity in Venezuela, which Nicholas Casey recently dusted off for the New York Times (), allegations of Chavista drug trafficking count among the corporate media's favorite Venezuela soundbites. Perhaps the strongest charge made by the report is that Venezuela provides a 'lifeline' to the FARC and other groups. The drug-trafficking conspiracy stretched back to when Maduro was serving as foreign minister in the country during the Hugo Chavez regime, prosecutors alleged in court papers. As the country teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, kleptocracy and the systematic sacking of state coffers has diminished. This story will take the reader into the spectacular adventure of an expat in South America who gets incarcerated in a drug conspiracy, where he was acting as a mule to carry drugs overseas in his luggage. Once of the most important positions in terms of internal security is the head of the National Guard. Found insideDrug. Industry. Comes. to. Venezuela. An international policy issue that has ... Chávez came to power is the handling of the problem of drug trafficking. [30] In a 2009 United States Congress report, it was stated that corruption in the Venezuelan armed forces was facilitating Colombian FARC guerillas' drug trafficking. Venezuela also had superior drug incinerators -- ecological ovens -- that could destroy 125 kilograms of drugs per hour. Matthew Heath, the former Marine captured in Venezuela in September 2020 and held on terrorism charges, refused . The recent influx of Venezuelans fleeing their country presents a new boom in Venezuela's sex and human . Both groups have long been involved in the drug trade and developed close links with Venezuelan officials, often with the blessing of President Hugo Chávez. Found inside – Page 45Also , please address what effect Venezuela's refusal to allow the United States overflight access , as well its general resistance to our drug fighting ... During the four years that Carrillo-Ramírez's drug trafficking group was under investigation, law enforcement interdicted nearly two tons of cocaine belonging to it. Found inside – Page 85Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Trade of the Committee on ... and Venezuelan authorities in the battle against illegal drug trafficking has ... 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The most high-profile case is that of Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal, Chávez's former spy chief who has sanctioned since 2008 and under indictment since 2014 for drug trafficking and for ties with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). Venezuela is increasingly vulnerable to drug and human trafficking. Allegations of Chavista drug trafficking count among the corporate media's favorite Venezuela soundbites. He did not respond to the new charges, but tweeted two days after they . Silva, Carvajal and Rodríguez had already been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for their involvement with the FARC and drug trafficking. Found inside – Page 170The intensification of drug trafficking added a new urgency to better cooperation between the two countries. Most observers believed that relations improved ... More than four million Venezuelans are fleeing from their country, according to the Refugee International's 2019 field report. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. Drug trafficking is considered a serious crime in Venezuela. Detection methods are sophisticated and drug traffickers should expect to be arrested. However, for legal reasons we will not publish our entire list. In 2004, Makled momentarily lost four tons of cocaine at the hands of the local Valencia police. The great leap into narco-trafficking came in 2005, when Chávez ended what cooperation had existed with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, accusing it of spying. The term was first used in 1993 when two National Guard generals, anti-drugs chief Ramón Guillén Dávila and his successor Orlando Hernández Villegas, were investigated for drug trafficking. [26], Campo stated on the DEA plane that he was the step son of President Maduro and that he grew up in the Maduro household while being raised by Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores. Aponte says that, while serving as a judge. We encourage readers to copy and distribute our work for non-commercial purposes, with attribution to InSight Crime in the byline and links to the original at both the top and bottom of the article. After their captures, the Cartel of the Suns took over many of the routes the Colombians had been running, thus moving from protecting shipments, to buy and selling them, dealing directly with international buyers, foremost among them the Mexican cartels. These traffickers had been protected by high-level Venezuelan officials. DOJ charges Venezuela's Maduro with drug trafficking. Previously, huge shipments of cocaine leaving Colombia and destined for the U.S. were mostly relayed via Mexico on an Eastern Pacific route. The U.S. government announces drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. [19] Those involved with investigations stated that Venezuelan government defectors and former traffickers had given information to investigators and that details of those involved in government drug trafficking were increasing. Get fresh updates on organized crime from across the region delivered to your inbox. Amid the surge in cocaine trafficking out of Venezuela and to the Caribbean, other paradise islands off the country's coasts have become transshipment hotspots. “Look, this guy is up to his neck in all sorts of illegal activity in Venezuela and we are building a case against him. The CIA claimed to have done this as a way of gathering information about Colombian drug cartels. The dirty money and drugs keeping Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro in power. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Columbian President Ivan Duque, left, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, March 2, 2020, in Washington. Evidence that one of the nephews, Efrain Antonio Campo Flores, was planning to put some of the proceeds from the drug deal into his aunt’s political campaign as head of the National Assembly, suggests that the first lady was not ignorant of her nephews’ activities and where they were getting their money. This is a valid worry, as the Pentagon has claimed - without offering any evidence - that drugs are trafficked "using naval vessels from Venezuela to Cuba." They brought to the meeting a kilogram of the drug so that the informant could understand its quality. We go into the field to interview, report and investigate. This book deals with threats to the sustainability of specific Caribbean states in the face of the concerted threats posed by the illicit drug trade, the illicit gun trade, human smuggling and the sex trade. They wanted advice as how to traffic cocaine. [20][22][23] The men flew from a hangar reserved for the President of Venezuela in Simón Bolívar International Airport into Haiti while being assisted by Venezuelan military personnel, which included two presidential honor guards, with the nephews carrying Venezuelan diplomatic passports which did not have diplomatic immunity according to former head of DEA international operations Michael Vigil. But even beyond the Tri-Border Area, Hezbollah is well-entrenched in Venezuela, where the Shiite terrorist group has long worked to establish a vast infrastructure for its criminal activities, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and illicit smuggling. [33] According to Colombian weekly Revista Semana, the director of the Dirección General de Inteligencia Militar (DGIM), Venezuelan agency in charge of Military Intelligence, was involved in supporting FARC drug trafficking. And the US and other regional officials say it's Venezuela's own mili. Sent Ton of Cocaine to U.S. in 1990, "Desarticulan red de tráfico de drogas que operaba en Venezuela, Brasil y Honduras", South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illegal_drug_trade_in_Venezuela&oldid=1038663304, Articles with dead external links from January 2020, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with Spanish-language sources (es), Articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The cousins planned to move the cocaine, provided by the FARC, out of the international airport in Caracas using their privileges as members of the Venezuelan elite, and their relationship with the military. [13], In 2008, the leader of the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel, Wilber Varela, was found murdered in a hotel in Mérida in Venezuela. We have 123 files. Among those arrested were Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco, alias “Valenciano,” a leader in the criminal organization the “Oficina de Envigado,” captured in November 2011; Héctor Germán Buitrago, alias “Martín Llanos,” a paramilitary warlord who had long run drugs across Colombian’s eastern plains into Venezuela, arrested in February 2012;  Diego Pérez Henao, alias “Diego Rastrojo,” military head of the Rastrojos crime group, captured in June 2012; and then Daniel Barrera Barrera, alias “El Loco,” one of the most prolific Colombian cocaine smugglers, arrested in September 2012. World Politics Review special reports are detailed compilations of recent WPR articles on a special theme. This report focuses on former President Hugo Chavez's legacy in Venezuela and the region. Found inside – Page 130As with its neighbors, Venezuela is affected by the all-pervasive cor— ruption that drug trafficking always leaves in its wake. In 1998, for example, ... This book deals with three major developments within the illicit drug trade of the Caribbean Basin that not only changed the nature of the illicit trade but has expanded the expanse of the trade as it now impacts Africa and Asia making it ... "[9], In Apure, Colombian guerrilla group FARC had set up locations in the state, creating multiple airfields in the region. What is underappreciated is the role of drug trafficking in serving interventionist purposes, as in Apure. And the US and other regional officials say it's Venezuela's own mili. Instead attached here are details of those we feel we have very strong evidence against. Found inside – Page 32Makled is wanted in the US for murder and drug trafficking. Furthermore, Venezuela has the “Cartel de los Soles”, a drug cartel in which high-ranking ... Can Peru Rid its Election of Narco-Influence? Either way, with his influence over the appointment of officials to key posts, especially within the military, there is no way that he is not aware of the drug trafficking dynamics in the country. Found inside – Page 514While the GOU can seize laundered drug money from banks or businesses ... narcotics traffickers frequently use Venezuela as a staging point for money ... U.S. officials believe he is a key liaison between drug traffickers . Instead of sidelining those accused of drug trafficking, Maduro has promoted them to the highest offices, perhaps calculating that they have the most to lose if his regime falls and will therefore fight the hardest to preserve it. The recent influx of Venezuelans fleeing their country presents a new boom in Venezuela's sex and human . Transnational crime remains a particularly serious problem in Latin America, with most issues connected to the drug trade. Illegal drug trade in Venezuela is the practice of illegal drug trading in Venezuela.Venezuela has been a path to the United States for illegal drugs originating in Colombia, through Central America and Mexico and Caribbean countries such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.. Adel El Zabayar Allegedly Worked with the Former President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros and Other Prominent Venezuelan Officials to Distribute Cocaine and Weapons In Coordination with Terrorist Organizations. The term â€œCartel of the Suns” (Cartel de los Soles) came from the golden stars that generals in the Venezuelan National Guard (Guardia Nacional Bolivariana â€“ GNB) wear on their epaulettes. -Freddy Bernal, a former mayor; Cliver Acalá Cordones, an Army General; and Ramon Madriz Moreno, a key intelligence officer, all met with FARC leaders and helped coordinate their security when on Venezuelan soil. Venezuelan women and girls were particularly . According to the United Nations, there has been an increase of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela since 2002. Today, Makled sits in a Venezuelan military jail, as do many of the regime’s dirty secrets. Venezuela was always going to play a role in the drug trade, positioned as it is alongside the world’s principal producer of cocaine, Colombia. Carvajal was detained in Spain in April, and is currently battling an extradition request from . [10] In September 2013, 31 suitcases containing 1.3 tons of cocaine on an Air France flight astonished Paris authorities as it was the largest seizure of cocaine recorded in mainland France. But the cocaine ended up being sold on the street. Found inside – Page 58Suspected Drug Trafficking Flights , 2012 Waging War against Drug from remote locations inside Venezuela's neighbor , Trafficking from Venezuela Colombia . The Bush Administration's accusation that Venezuela had failed to implement anti-drug measures drawn up by U.S. policymakers did Caracas an injustice. It is believed that these elements are still working with members of the Cartel of the Suns. That position was held by Major General Néstor Reverol -- now Interior Minister -- who has been indicted in the United States for drug trafficking. Former Member Of Venezuelan National Assembly Charged With Narco-Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, And Weapons Offenses. Cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the US is soaring, even as the country collapses. The army and the National Guard started to compete with each other for routes, and began dealing directly with the FARC rather than with Colombian civilian drug traffickers. The links between Makled, the FARC and the Chávez government became clearer after Makled was captured in the Colombian border city of Cúcuta in August 2010. According to the DEA, over 70 percent of the narcotics then sent from Colombia through Venezuela were shipped from Puerto Cabello. With drug trafficking through Venezuela skyrocketing amid the country's collapse, its Caribbean islands have increasingly served as both a waystation and a springboard for drug traffickers. [32] Venezuelan officials have also been allegedly working with Mexican drug cartels. S even months ago Nicolas Maduro seemed to be on the brink. Makled was connected to the former National Guard general and then governor of Carabobo, Luis Felipe Acosta Carles. Every dollar supports our mission. Check the Creative Commons website for more details of how to share our work, and please send us an email if you use an article. They assert that . [citation needed]According to the United Nations, there was an increase of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela since 2002. Found inside – Page 45Also , please address what effect Venezuela's refusal to allow the United States overflight access , as well its general resistance to our drug fighting ... Found inside – Page 828Drug Policy History Venezuela initiated antinarcotics efforts after ... and trafficking of drugs, ONA created the Venezuelan Observatory of Drugs in 1999. Found inside – Page 87Moreover, there are persistent charges in Venezuela that members of the armed forces and police are themselves involved in the drug trade. A Venezuelan island in the Caribbean that is a popular tourist destination was used by a Colombian trafficker to move drugs to the United States and Europe, in another example of Venezuela's coastal islands serving as transshipment points. Sources in the US Justice Department spoke to InSight Crime about Cabello on condition of anonymity. Found inside – Page 32Not only does the Venezuelan Government's attitude encourage drug trafficking , but Venezuela's geographic proximity to West Africa make it an ideal ... 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