🌊 U.S. War on Drugs Misses the Real Route 🚤

🇺🇸 The U.S. has been blowing up boats off Venezuela, claiming it’s fighting “narco-terrorism.” But the numbers tell a different story — Venezuela isn’t where the drugs come from, not even close.

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🧩 Slide 1 – The Myth

The military says Venezuelan boats are flooding America with cocaine. In reality, the country produces almost none. It’s just an occasional detour when other routes get blocked.

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🌎 Slide 2 – The Real Source

Nearly all the world’s cocaine comes from Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.

📊 DEA data shows:

• 74% moves through the Pacific Ocean

• 16% through the West Caribbean

• 8% through the East Caribbean (where Venezuela sits)

So most of it never even touches Venezuelan waters.

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🚤 Slide 3 – Sea Routes

Boats leave Colombia and Ecuador, stop through Central America or Caribbean islands, then hit Mexico, where major cartels take control.

Those small Venezuelan routes the U.S. targets handle a fraction of global traffic.

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✈️ Slide 4 – Air Routes

A smaller share flies out from eastern Colombia and Venezuela, landing in Honduras or Guatemala.

UN data says this only accounts for under 10% of total shipments.

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🚛 Slide 5 – Land Routes

Once it’s in Mexico or Central America, it’s transported north by truck and train.

Most cocaine enters the U.S. through Mexican border routes, run mainly by Sinaloa and CJNG cartels.

By that stage, Venezuela’s out of the picture.

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💡 Bottom Line:

You can blow up boats all day, but it won’t stop the flow. The real pipeline runs through the Pacific, not the Caribbean — powered by demand, corruption, and politics, not by fishermen off Venezuela’s coast.

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