The Interior Minister of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, said Friday that the President Gustavo Petro, promotes the Coca and marijuana culture In Colombia, whose “Unique industry” -He expressed- is drug trafficking.
“From the governments that Colombia has had, including this same government that we now have in Colombia, They promote the cultivation of coca and marijuana leaves “he declared during his weekly morning program.
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In his opinion, Petro “Sometimes he declares and does things” for whate “It seems that they were enemies” from Venezuela, Although the administration of Nicolás Maduro has tried “Help the Colombian government and the people.”
In that sense, he said that without the deceased president Hugo Chávez and without the current president, Nicolás Maduro, “It would not have been peace process” the one that has developed in Colombia.
“They play the United States narrative, It seems that it is a united states agencys those who declare in Colombia “, He said hair, who He urged Colombian authorities to deal with drug trafficking, the crime and the sicariate that, he said, there is in its territory, instead of “get into the internal affairs of Venezuela.”
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In addition, he indicated that the Chavista administration gave information to the Colombian authorities about the Location of 16 members of the Transnational Criminal Band ‘Aragua Train’ -New in a Venezuelan prison and given by dismantled since September 2023- that “They went to there protected”he said, by former presidents Iván Duque, Juan Manuel Santos, Álvaro Uribe and Andrés Pastrana.
“They only captured one, they let them go and were members of the Aragua train,” He added.
It is worth mentioning that, on April 30, Maduro, said that In Colombia “Nobody answers” calls To address problems such as “Drug trafficking, violence and irregular groups”.
Therefore, he asked the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) Continue defending the Venezuelan territory and that the border with Colombia, of 2,219 kilometers, is “Free of violence and drug trafficking.”
EFE