Corruption in Venezuela has created a cocaine superhighway to the US
Colombia and Honduras (CNN)- Cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the United States is soaring, even as the country collapses. And US and other regional officials say it's Venezuela's own military and political elite who are facilitating the passage of drugs in and out of the country on hundreds of tiny, unmarked planes.
A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from Venezuela has risen from about two flights per week in 2017 to nearly daily in 2018, according to one US official. This year, the same official has seen as many as five nighttime flights in the sky at once.
Planes loaded with Colombian cocaine used to depart from Venezuela's remote southern jungle regions. Now they take off from the country's more developed northwest region to reduce their flying time, US and regional officials also said.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/americas/venezuela-drug-cocaine-trafficking-intl/index.html
This is what I've seen as one way to combat Venezuela, if we could increase "interdiction" efforts on them because according to Pompeo, some members of the press, they are the biggest dope smuggling operation in the Western hemisphere.
Caracas has been a murder capital of the world in recent years, has to be related.
