Report: Venezuela Made over $8 Billion on Drug Trafficking in 2024
Drug trafficking generated more than $8.2 billion in Venezuela in 2024, according to a report published by the non-government organization Transparencia Venezuela on Wednesday.

Drug trafficking generated more than $8.2 billion in Venezuela in 2024, according to a report published by the non-government organization Transparencia Venezuela on Wednesday.
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Foreign Minister of Colombia Laura Sarabia on Monday urged the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to remove coca leaves — cocaine’s main ingredient — from its list of harmful substances.
Border Patrol agents and their law enforcement partners have managed to seize and prevent more than $25 million in cocaine from reaching the interior of the United States during the past seven days. The latest seizure, which occurred on Thursday near San Clemente, California, was nabbed after a Border Patrol K-9 unit sniffed out the illicit substance hidden in trash bags located in the trunk of a vehicle.
In three separate events in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, agents seized nearly 560 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $18 million. Two seizures occurred at a fixed highway checkpoint after routine immigration inspections. The third seizure resulted from a roving patrol stop initiated by Border Patrol agents. The three seizures were reported within hours of each other on Sunday morning.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.
A high school dean in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is accused of running a drug trafficking organization, the FBI announced.
Australian police seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the suspects’ boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, authorities said Monday.
Enough fentanyl to kill 2.5 million Americans was seized in a South Carolina drug investigation, the FBI announced Monday.
More than $1 million worth of cocaine was washed onto a Florida beach as Hurricane Debby reached Florida, bringing heavy rains and flooding.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is facing criticism for allowing advertisements that promote illegal drugs including cocaine and opioids on its social media platforms, even as it faces a federal investigation into the practice.
Police in New York City are warning residents of a drug from Colombia named tusi that has been flooding the Big Apple.
The drug policy changes that Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro enacted have led to a dramatic surge in cocaine production.
A recently unsealed indictment from a U.S. federal court claims that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro is involved in the drug trade.
Drug overdoses are surging in New York, with seven deaths being reported within five hours in just one western county.
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) announced on Wednesday that they are investigating a “zip lock bag” left inside the agency’s headquarters building that contained a “small amount” of cocaine.
Actor Alec Baldwin has been clean of drugs and alcohol for 40 years and opened up about his past habits Wednesday in a candid chat with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson.
Swedish customs made one of the country’s biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug near Stockholm.
The driver of a concrete truck that crashed into a school bus in Texas, killing two people, reportedly said he had used cocaine that morning.
A pair of suspected drug dealers have been hit with nearly 50 charges after they allegedly tried to smuggle court documents infused with fentanyl, cocaine, and PCP into jail, New York City officials say.
Quarterback Johnny Manziel recently revealed that he lost 40 pounds on a “strict diet of blow” following his flameout.
Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago announced the discovery on Sunday of a plastic bag containing more than $75,000 worth of cocaine washed up on a beach near the spot where a mysterious ship capsized this month, causing an oil spill that affected about ten miles of Tobago’s coastline.
A toxicology report found cocaine and other illegal drugs were inside the three Kansas City Chiefs fans who froze to death outside a home.
Advisers for First Lady Jill Biden have gotten tons of flak for scheduling her to give a speech at a school with an awkward name.
Authorities found cocaine residue on Hunter Biden’s gun pouch in 2018, the Justice Department (DOJ) revealed in a new filing Tuesday, hindering his legal defense against three gun charges.
A Nebraska woman is accused of child abuse after her baby tested positive for methamphetamine and cocaine.
The cause of death for 8 Mile rapper-actor Nashawn Breedlove has been revealed after he died in September 2023 aged 46.
A commercial truck driver was caught transporting over $10 million worth of narcotics into the U.S., border patrol officials said Thursday.
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Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro repealed a decree over the weekend that criminalized the carrying and consumption of “personal doses” of narcotics in the country, allowing citizens to possess up to one gram of cocaine without legal repercussions.
The Secret Service reportedly found DNA from the cocaine baggie discovered in the White House after saying it was unable to identify any.
The Cartel of the Suns, an intercontinental cocaine trafficking organization run by the Venezuelan military and high-ranking members of the socialist regime, is able to move upwards of 350 metric tons of cocaine per year valued at $6.2-$8.7 billion, according to a report published by The Miami Herald on Monday.
A man allegedly caught with millions of dollars’ worth of drugs at a Chicago airport on October 24 was let off fairly easy for the time being.
A city councilwoman from a border city in Mexico pleaded guilty to smuggling close to 100 pounds of cocaine in a U.S. federal court. The politician, still listed on her city’s website, is currently facing a possible sentence of up to life in prison.
A former officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection will spend more than 13 years in prison for his role in a cocaine smuggling conspiracy.
Cocaine is expected to overtake oil to become Colombia’s main export as a result of far-left President Gustavo Petro’s drug policies.
A retired doctor was arrested after authorities allegedly discovered cocaine, ketamine and firearms aboard his yacht in Nantucket Harbor.
Authorities in Spain uncovered 9.5 tons of cocaine hidden in refrigerated banana containers from Ecuador.
A hot-air balloon pilot was on two kinds of drugs during a fatal 2021 crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to officials.
A five-year-old Indiana boy, allegedly high on cocaine, shot and killed his 16-month-old brother, who was allegedly high on marijuana, in March of this year.