DEA drug trafficking profits remain in the US banking system

The USA, is the world’s biggest drug consumer and money launderer, scapegoats Venezuela with the fabricated “Narco-state” label. The drug issue is projected onto Latin America.

Since Hugo Chávez was elected Venezuela’s president in 1998 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution – a movement that catalyzed the Pink Tide in Latin America and galvanized a counter-hegemonic wave internationally – Washington has tried to crush it.

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In 2015, then-US President Barack Obama accused Venezuela of being an “extraordinary threat to US national security when, in fact, the opposite was the case; the US threatened Venezuela.

Obama imposed unilateral coercive measures – euphemistically called sanctions. Each subsequent administration renewed and, to varying degrees, intensified the sanctions, which are illegal under international law, in a bipartisan effort.

But the imperial objective of regime change was thwarted by the political leadership of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in concert with the country’s people and in firm alliance with their military.

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Now that draconian sanctions have “failed” to achieve regime-change, President Trump dispatched an armada of warships, F-35 stealth aircraft, and thousands of troops to increase the pressure.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro responded: “What Washington wants is to control Venezuela’s wealth [including the world’s largest oil reserves].

That is the reason why the USA deployed warships, aircraft, missiles and a nuclear submarine near Venezuelan coasts under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.

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Maduro maintains his country is free of drug production and processing, citing reports from the United Nations, the European Union, and even the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

The Venezuelan president could have also referenced the findings of Trump’s own security agencies absolving him from the charge of directing the Tren de Aragua drug cartel.

And, speaking of collusion with drug cartels, Maduro could have commented on the DEA itself, which was expelled from Venezuela in 2005 for espionage.

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Regardless, the DEA has continued to secretly build drug trafficking cases against Venezuela’s leaders in knowing violation of international law, according to an Associated Press report.

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez highlights that the DEA has known connections with the drug trafficking world.

For example, an investigation by the US Department of Justice, revealed that at least ten DEA agents in Colombia participated in repeated sex parties with prostitutes paid for by local drug cartels.

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In 2022 the DEA quietly removed its Mexico chief for maintaining improper contacts with cartels. This underscores a troubling pattern: DEA presence tends to coincide with major drug activity, but does not eliminate it.

The USA is not interested in addressing the serious public health problem its citizens face due to high drug use, Maduro reminds us. He points out that drug trafficking profits remain in the US banking system.

In fact, illicit narcotics are a major US industry. Research by the US Army-funded RAND Corporation reveals that narcotics rank alongside pharmaceuticals and oil/gas as top US commodities.

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The former head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Pino Arlacchi commented: I was in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil but I have never been to Venezuela; there was simply no need.

The Venezuelan government’s cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking was one of the best in South America; It can be compared only to Cuba’s impeccable record.

This fact, in Trump’s delusional narrative of ‘Venezuela as a narco-state’, sounds like geopolitically motivated slander. The UN 2025 World Drug Report, from the organization he led, tells a story opposite to that spread by the Trump administration.

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According to Arlaachi, if any Latin American country should be targeted, it is US-allied Ecuador, now the world’s leading cocaine exporter using banana boats owned by the family of Trump’s buddy, right-wing President Daniel Naboa.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum notes that if any alliance exists with cartels, it lies in the US gun shops, highlighting how Yankee firearms fuel cartel violence. She urges Washington to look inward at its own drug demand and lax enforcement.

If the USA truly wanted to curb fentanyl, they can combat the sale of narcotics on the streets of their main cities… and [stop] the money laundering tied to the trade – steps they don’t do.

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The resounding message from Latin America is that blaming them alone for the drug problem is misleading – the USA’s own appetite for drugs and history of interventionism are key contributors. Solutions call for shared responsibilities and cooperative relationships.

US policy under Trump, which confounds terrorism with criminal activity, is a cover for projecting military domination.

Claiming the prerogative to unilaterally intervene in the sovereign territories of neighboring states to fight cartels or murdering a boat’s crew in the Caribbean are not solutions. Latin American leaders are turning the spotlight back on Washington.

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They point to US gun policies, consumer demand, and ulterior motives behind Washington’s renewed war on drugs, such as the current regime-change offensive against Venezuela.

The drug problem won’t be solved by scapegoating Latin America, when the USA has yet to address root causes at home.

Venezuela Analysis / ABC Flash Point News 2025.