US EditionColombia’s president says the US bombed a cocaine factory in Venezuela
The U.S. has intensified strikes targeting drug trafficking in Venezuela, killing over 100 people, with the facility linked to the ELN guerrilla group, Colombia’s president said.
- In a December 30 post, President Gustavo Petro alleged the US bombed a factory in Maracaibo, Venezuela, that he feared mixed coca paste into cocaine.
- The Trump administration has intensified pressure on Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, saying Monday strikes hit `in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs`.
- Petro suggested the facility was operated by the ELN, which Petro said partly controls the Catatumbo region, and noted Washington has struck more than 30 maritime targets.
- No official Venezuelan response has been released, and some attacked boats in maritime strikes reportedly carried cannabis rather than cocaine.
- Petro wrote that `The ELN is permitting, with its trafficking and mental dogma, the invasion of Venezuela`, and he highlighted that cannabis is legal in many parts of the United States.
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Colombian President Says u.s. Bombed Cocaine Factory in Venezuelan Port of Maracaibo · Global Voices
Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, said Tuesday that the United States bombed a cocaine factory in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo, which he linked to the Colombian guerrilla ELN.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has provided more details of the first United States operation in Venezuela, carried out last Christmas Eve without being made public until five days later, and has assured that the target was a cocaine factory in the port of Maracaibo that controlled the Colombian guerrillas of the Army of National Liberation (ELN).Continue reading...
According to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the US attacked a suspected cocaine factory in the Venezuelan port city of Maracaibo. Petro indicated that the plant was operated by the Colombian guerrilla organization ELN, which controls part of the Colombian region of Catatumbo on the border with Venezuela. "It's simply ELN." The ELN, through its drug trafficking, made it possible to invade Venezuela. "We know that Trump bombed a factory in Mar…
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