Venezuelan VP Says Trump Should Target Pacific Routes, Not Caribbean, 'If Stopping Drug Flow Is the Real Goal'

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez (Credit: Creative Commons)

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Monday that the United States should focus its anti-narcotics operations on the Pacific Ocean rather than the Caribbean if its goal is to curb cocaine and fentanyl shipments entering the country.

Citing data from the United Nations and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), she argued that most maritime drug trafficking routes to the U.S. pass through the Pacific, not Venezuelan waters.