Comandante Antonio García
Since the post-pandemic period and the most recent global economic crisis, which put in check the supremacy of the United States as the only global potential, it has been leading an alliance with the international extreme right, to reposition its imperialist strategy in Asia (Palestine, Syria, Iraq), while promoting a new counterinsurgency plan for Latin America.
In its strategy it presents its enemy to be fought as a demon carrying the worst vices and defects of humanity, it is the old imperialist weapon to wage its wars. The United States has allocated huge amounts of resources and propaganda to this end, since the counterinsurgency wars of the 1960s, the first war on drugs in 1971, Plan Colombia in 1999 and the war on terrorism that began in 2001.
In almost 70 years promoting invasions, dictatorships, genocides and coups d’état in the region, they have not managed to reduce the demand and consumption of drugs in their society, which massively resorts to cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, to escape from existence and its consequences that capitalism has shown and taught as a “Model of Non-Life”, today in complete decline.
The United States is not interested in its citizens, who die abandoned in the streets from overdoses. Its false anti-drug fight of more than 50 years, and the bombastic version of the operations against Mexico or the fleets that advance towards the Venezuelan Caribbean, are the usual excuses to guarantee control and domination over Latin America, which in the end synthesize the agony of its influence and supremacy over the region.
The great drug trafficking market is in the United States and European countries, who really profit from this business, are the ones who control these large massive markets. That is why the DEA, if it persists in the use of repression to combat this phenomenon, should focus its efforts on putting an end to this large market and to “dollar launderers”; but since it does not, it continues to accumulate failures by inventing culprits that do not exist.
Today we are witnessing the moment when the claws are shown, in a war of intimidation against the Venezuelan people, as well as for a few months against the Mexican people and government, reinforced by new and strong intelligence and surveillance strategies sponsored by international agencies, which often act from Colombia and the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
This war of intimidation resorts to delegitimization and discredit, wanting to falsely make the insurgency look not only as a drug trafficking cartel, in perfect coincidence with President Petro’s statements, but also inventing the existence of a drug trafficking cartel within the Venezuelan government.
The purposes: to intimidate, generate panic, pressure, a feeling of defeat, delegitimization, in the face of a society that condemns drug trafficking as one of the worst crimes against humanity. For what? To regain lost control in the region in the face of the strengthening of new international players such as Russia, China or Iran; to increase pressure and aggression against leftist governments and to diplomatically isolate those who refuse to obey the imperialist mandates of the United States.
Today in the world, drug trafficking is one of the main businesses of capitalism. If the United States had a true commitment to its eradication, it would be working on drug demand reduction, prevention and public health approaches, and the investigation and punishment of its officials and businessmen, who profit from drug trafficking and allow tons of cocaine to enter the United States. Or why doesn’t the DEA declare the Gulf Clan, responsible for the largest transnational drug trafficking from Colombia, a narco-terrorist organization? Why are we only falsely accused of being drug traffickers, the insurgency and leftist governments?
Today the great counterinsurgency war machine is once again directed towards the peoples of Latin America. It is not only towards the ELN or the government of Venezuela. This onslaught is aimed at bleeding the stakes of sovereignty and social and political transformation in our region, and therefore, generates rejection of the imperialist war in all its formats throughout Latin America. If aggression occurs, there is no other way but resistance.
Regarding the ELN’s relationship with drug trafficking, once again, we ratify our proposal and invitation to carry out a great conversation and investigation on the drug problem, with the accompaniment and commitment of the international community, in which the world can demonstrate with evidence our policy of demarcation with drug trafficking. The ELN has never been linked to drug trafficking, in the future all these lies will fall. That time will come.
Source: https://eln-voces.net/2025/09/01/la-farsa-antidrogas-otra-vez/