Posted on 07/11/2019 8:26:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Thanks to oil, Venezuela was once the wealthiest country in the region — before becoming the continent’s poorest, ravaged by corruption and feckless economic policy. And amid the economic decline, high-ranking government officials became conspicuously wealthy. But how?
According to U.S. indictments, former government officials, and regional experts, officials linked to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and members of Maduro’s government built a massive drug syndicate — while most of the country increasingly struggled to find food to eat, or medicine to care for the sick.
“Venezuela was a narco state several years ago, but it has become darker and more ominous,” Mike Vigil, former DEA Chief of International Operations, told Yahoo Finance (video above). “I consider it to be a mafia state. Because it's not only drug trafficking — it's financial crimes, it's money laundering, it's piracy, and all kinds of trafficking. So it has become worse than a narco state.”
Sharing a porous border with Colombia, where more than 90% of cocaine going to the U.S. originates, Venezuela has served as the start of a drug highway straight to drug consumers around the world.
“Venezuela has become probably the cocaine capital of the world.”
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Wow.
There sure are a lot of ill people in this world who need that medicine.
Yapoo is supposed to take down such kind of reactionary propaganda.
AOC and champagne socialist Sean Penn will go ballistic.
#1 That photo of the guys walking around er... bricks could be the people of San Francisco doing the same around the homeless “waste”....
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