Apure, the new port of the drug (translated article)
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For several years it has been reported that Venezuela has become the new route out of the drug that is sent from South America to the U.S. and Europe. A 2010 report from the White House Office for National Policy Drug Control estimated that 24% of the cocaine that reached its territory passed through this country.
Now a report in The New York Times reveals that Apure, Venezuela's state border with Colombia, is the new port business, mostly controlled by the FARC. The report argues that all criminal work of the traffickers and the FARC is one of the main outputs of the cocaine produced in Colombia to the United States and one of the largest sources of traffic in the world. In May last year The Spectator had DEA documents revealed that they realized that more than a decade, Venezuela's role has become more important in this regard. In another article, also of this newspaper, it was reported how the Black Eagles profit since 2004 with the drugs and vaccines to livestock in the Venezuelan state of Apure.
The New York Times that the U.S. authorities made a map with long-range radars and sees the vast plains of Apure Venezuela 121 depart illegal routes for smuggling cocaine. As he told the newspaper Louis Lippa, former governor of Apure, since there are flights loaded with cocaine that target Central America and the Caribbean islands.
The current governor, Ramón Carrizales, told the NYT that Venezuela is hitting strongly the drug trade, has destroyed 36 clandestine airstrips and its policy is sound. The Venezuelan press reported this week that the Scientific, Criminal and Venezuela has seized 23,839 kilograms of drugs so far this year. At that period there were 4,081 procedures and 5,419 people have been arrested," he said on Wednesday Deputy Prevention and Public Safety, Nestor Reverol.