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Special Report - Drugs in Latin America: Part 2 (ISSN 17414474)
A growing problem or just an ideological enemy?
Establishing the facts about Venezuela's role in the world drug trade
is all but impossible. All the data is coloured by the antagonism between
President George W Bush and President Hugo Chávez . The US asserts that Venezuela
has become a major conduit for drug trafficking to both the US and Europe
because the Chávez government is either in league with traffickers such as the
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) or is too corrupt to do
anything to combat the drug gangs. The Venezuelan government argues, and draws
on UN figures to support its case, that it is a stern adversary to the drug
trade and intercepts around half the drugs that attempt to cross its
territory.
