United States defends the drug trafficking and use its two-faced moral to accuse Venezuela

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“United States decision of not certifying Venezuela's anti-drug struggle is a non-sense position that has, doubtless, a political hidden meaning (...) and it shows the lack of commitment by North American authorities to solve drugs' problem,” said the former Ambassador of Venezuela to United States, Bernardo Álvarez.

In an exclusive interview offered to Telesur, Álvarez said that the fact of united States putting in some kind of “blacklist” Venezuela and Bolivia, among the countries that, according to them, have “evidently failed” on their fight against the drug trafficking in the last year, is just “the chronicle of a death foretold.”

Álvarez highlighted that the measure announced by US President, George W. Bush, this Tuesday afternoon “shows a non-sense policy that instead of solving world's drug problems, it has just increased them.”

“United States is the world's largest drugs consumer, while Afghanistan and Colombia, an invaded nation and their main South American ally that receives million of dollars from Washington, respectively, are the two world's largest producers,” Álvarez stated.

President George W. Bush read this Tuesday to the US Congress the so-called “blacklist” of flunked or “uncertified” countries. This year, the list is constituted by 20 countries, 14 of them from Latin America and the
Caribbean.

Bush said that Bolivia and Venezuela has “evidently failed” in the drug trafficking last 12 months; therefore, they will not receive the “certification” by the North American Congress.

Venezuela, leader in the fight against drug trafficking

Regarding the false accusations made by President Bush, Álvarez reminded that Venezuela has been acknowledge by United Nations as the fourth best country fighting against drug trafficking in 2007, helping other 37 countries by providing support in the field of drug prevention.

Venezuela “deports lot of drug traffickers. Proportionally, it has arrested more people involved in drug trafficking than other countries and it has seized more drugs than other nations. So, it is more than obvious that it is all about double standards,” he stated.

Álvarez added that the US administration decision was not a surprise “because we knew since last week that it was coming. Everything was already fixed.”

“I think that the good thing this time (about the “uncertification”) is that it matches with the interventionist and meddling situation in Venezuela and Bolivia. It is obvious that this decision is merely political,” Álvarez reiterated.

He also stressed that Venezuela and other countries have realized that the right way to fight drugs is moving away from these “cooperation processes” and bodies such as the DEA.

“Their theory saying that nobody can be in the fight against drug trafficking (without them) and that they have the right model to fight against it, it has not solved this problem in the world at all. There is a real criticize pointing that the model does not work,” he stated.

Furthermore, Álvarez said that United States, which condemns and impose sanctions (to some countries) and then keeps its financial “help to defend the democracy”, is just really trying to address that money “to finance illegal political activities and destabilization actions.”

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