From ABC.es via Fausta’s Blog:
Information published by ABC regarding negotiations between Nicolás Maduro’s staff—when he was foreign minister—in an FMLN drug trafficking operation in El Salvador, has corroborated suspicions that existed in Venezuelan political and diplomatic circles.
“This news confirms what many already knew about the significant and growing presence of drug trafficking in Venezuela and its important relations with the top echelon in the government and the Armed Forces,” former Venezuelan ambassador to Sweden and Guyana, Sadio Garavini commented. “Venezuela has become a center of command and control of international drug trafficking since the expulsion of the DEA (U.S. anti-drug agency) of the country and the indefinite suspension of the effective partnership with former United States cooperation in the fight against drugs.”
This should come as no surprise to Fausta’s Blog readers; additionally, the links extend to Colombia’s FARC, El Salvador’s FMNL, and Hezbollah:
leaders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador are linked to the Colombian guerrillas, while stressing the massive financial backing from Venezuela to the FMLN, which has been done to take complete control of the country.
“The FMLN and Alba Petroleos of El Salvador – the entity that funnels Venezuelan aid – has taken over the country in ways the United Fruit Company would have never imagined: from airlines to mass purchases of land in the capital, coffee crops above price, pharmacies, banks, and media outlets. Montsant also points to reports and studies by the University of Salamanca, demonstrating the influence of Venezuelan oil through Alba Petróleos on Salvadorans leaders, enabling a patronage policy that seeks votes in the popular sectors.
The ABC article is titled Diplomáticos confirman la conexión de Venezuela con el narcotráfico Destacan que la tradicional alianza del chavismo con la guerrilla colombiana de las FARC ha sido un factor esencial en ese comercio ilegal (Diplomats confirm Venezuela’s links to drug trafficking They assert that chavismo’s alliance with the FARC Colombian guerrilla is an essential factor of the illegal trade.)
Last week, ABC had reported that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s mediated an FMLN deal with the FARC back when he was vice-president (link in Spanish) allowing drug flights landing in the state of Apure, Venezuela.
Missing from this article is the Cuba link. The official anti-drug propaganda not-withstanding, it is fact that the mafia family running Cuba, Castro Inc., has large bank accounts funded in part by international trafficking, including drugs. The article doesn’t mention the U.S. indictment against Raul Castro and 14 others on drug trafficking charges, quashed by the Clinton Administration, and the article doesn’t mention Cuba’s ties to international terrorist groups such as to Colombia’s FARC, El Salvador’s FMNL, and Hezbollah.
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