I didn't say it wasn't about drugs. Two things can be true at the same time.
It is a bad thing because Venezuela is not a significant transit country,
Yes, there is a mafia in Venezuela, that's not new having Colombia as neighbors. It's just no worse than Colombia or Mexico. And that doesn't date back to when Chávez became president. He has more years than all of us combined (laughs), I mean, many years before socialism and much more.
It is not good to believe in everything negative or in everything positive that is said in the news. In this case, which part is true and which part is a
distorted version of the truth?
I worked for the government as a simple photographer for quite a while, and yet it's horrible how many areas are controlled by "deals/business" between the government and the "do your business but don't go crazy" type mafias. Obviously, there is everything in those deals when the mafia over passes the governmental control.
I don't mean by this that I know everything, but without a doubt, it is possible to know much more than the average citizen who only watches the news. Venezuela is not a traffic-free zone, it's just less worse than other countries.
But that is not a major reason for what the United States is doing today. But it takes that part of the truth/reality about Venezuela and distorts it to its convenience, even if it is not a country with a very high rate of drug trafficking.
In fact, if the government makes a deal with cartels, which are mostly Colombian, what do you expect to happen?. What we are seeing.
Who killed one of Iran's leaders? Colombian mercenaries.
From Latin America, where are a lot of mercenaries in Ukraine from? Colombians.
Claudia Sheinbaum went out smiling with Marco Rubio and her first action was to attack China with the tariff war and one day later it is discovered that there are Mexican cartels trained by NATO in Ukraine and Dmitri Medvedev already had time making that warning call.
After so many days that Claudia S. was showing that she stood firm to the USA, shouting "no submission, yes to dialogue", ironically appeared with brainwashed and smiling declaring as "successful meeting" with Marco Rubio's older psychopath.
What do you think happened? the typical thing, they will have dawned on their family among other things. But Mexico all his life and unfortunately he has no choice but to play "pull and shrink" with the USA.
Lula doesn't even know when it's his turn to play. First that he is against the positioning of ships in the Caribbean and days later he says "I am in favor of peace" what peace?who is the peaceful? there are only two sides and it is very evident who is not the one who is carrying the flag of peace.
Pawns of psychopaths and their vague "neither with one nor with the other" comments.
It should not be a surprise to anyone that Maduro has already lasted too long in Venezuela and that is a big obstacle. They should just take it out of the game, everything else is tools to use it in that goal. Put together the matrix of opinion as with Libya and that's it.
I've had a feeling for years that this will happen internally. The blockade that they are currently doing in the Caribbean Sea, it seems to me that it will be to block foreign aid once the country is in total chaos due to lack of ungovernability if they achieve their objective of assassinating Maduro.
Why is that? well because Russia, China and any allied country, like the good guys of the world, will never do anything outside of "diplomacy". Like the good guys they are, they will stick to the laws and everything will remain as usual, pure words of support in the media while Venezuela is a total hell.
I don't believe in Petro, I don't care about his pompous words, it would be too silly to believe that just because he has broken ties with Israel is already enough to see him as "part of the good guys".
Petro along with Lula and others, called the vote counting in Venezuela and that is enough sign that he will also see only for his interest when the time comes. Whatever they say today, it's just part of the show.
I'm sorry to say it but Colombia is known as a cradle of traitors, that has been something historical. Petro and Maduro do not have a very close relationship either. And Petro has already said it, he is against the US invasion.The U.S. in Venezuela only because that would drag Colombia into a bigger problem, "not because it is an ally of Maduro."
Of course, just as Colombians were fleeing their country's conflicts to Venezuela, now it would be the opposite. "Oops not people escaping the war, it sucks that they stay in their country."
There is a phrase that a US military man said, I don't remember it exactly but it's something like "to invade Venezuela, you have to arm Colombia militarily".
I have more reason to doubt Petro,
his support is no longer a Trojan horse. An the drug issue is a good bridge. For me, all of this connects very easily.
I have been seeing this pattern for a long time, Colombian mercenaries like carrion vultures flying to any conflict anywhere in the world. Here will be no exception.