USA puts Venezuelan leaders on Hit List

Illicit dsrug sales in the USA are estimated at $200–$750 billion, including new synthetics. Remarkably, the only other domestic commodity that comes close in volume is legal pharmaceuticals at $600 billion, followed by oil and gas at $400 billion.

Indeed, the USA is the largest consumer of illegal drugs and a major supplier of weapons and drug precursor chemicals for the cartels.

The entire US Economy is just a facade for Money-Laundering

As the world’s leading narcotics money launderer, prominent US banks implicated include HSBC Bank USA, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

We constantly hear about Latin American drug kingpins, but who distributes the dope when it crosses the border is left unanswered.

Research by Mexican journalist Jorge Esquivel demonstrates that no US administration has ever seriously investigated domestic drug trafficking networks.

CIA gave birth to the modern Drug Trade in the Americas

Venezuelan international analyst Sergio Gelfenstein asserts Washington has no interest whatsoever in combating the drug trade; it is just too big and profitable.

Besides, drug usage serves to pacify youth, African Americans, and other potentially dissident demographics. Journalist Gary Webb exposed how drug trafficking on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s helped fund the CIA-backed Contras in Nicaragua.

And opium production was virtually eradicated in Afghanistan before the US invasion of 2001, only to explode again under direct US military occupation.

Venezuela Analysis / ABC Flash Point News 2025.