This Monday Sept. 19th, Venezuela deported seven people involved in drug smuggling activities; six of them were Colombians and one was from the United States.
Mission Negra Hipolita transformed a farm used for drug trafficking in the mountains of Lara state into an integral diagnostic centre for homeless people, the majority of who have problems with drugs.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ratified, for the sixth consecutive year, the non-existence of illicit drug cultivations in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan government has stepped up its fight against drug addiction this week, announcing the creation of a new National Addiction Treatment and Prevention System slated to combine the efforts of various public offices to root out the underpinning causes of drug abuse in the country.
Colombia will extradite alleged drug lord Walid Makled to Venezuela and not to the United States, which had also requested the extradition, Colombian President Santos announced on Wednesday.
More accusations by accused drug trafficker, Walid Makled, have led to mainstream media calling Venezuela a “drug state”, amidst a political struggle between the U.S. and Venezuela over Makled’s extradition.
On Wednesday Venezuelan authorities captured five suspected members of the right-wing Colombian paramilitary group Águilas Negras (or Black Eagles) in the southwestern border state of Táchira.
Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) announced yesterday that government authorities arrested 12,376 people on drug-related charges in the year 2010, an increase of 41.6% compared to 2009, when 8,741 drug-related arrests were made.
Today, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed his intention to extradite accused Venezuelan drug trafficker Walid Makled-Garcia to Venezuela, a promise he made to his Venezuelan counterpart during bi-lateral talks held earlier this month in Caracas.
In the days following the release of a White House memorandum that placed Venezuela on a list of illicit drug transit and producing countries, Venezuela deported two suspected drug traffickers, confiscated 3,260 kilograms of illegal drugs, and seized four airplanes used for drug trafficking.
