Peru regrets poor aid of Venezuela in counternarcotics efforts

Western Hemisphere
Peruvian Defense Minister Rafael Rey deplored on Monday that the Venezuelan government has not further cooperated with his government in counternarcotics efforts, highlighting at the same time, the good will of the Colombian government in this regard.

"There is not much cooperation between the Venezuelan and the Peruvian government in the fight against drug traffic, unlike Colombia," Rey told Efe during an interview in Madrid.

The Peruvian minister made a presentation on Monday at the forum Spanish-American Tribune, hosted by the House of the Americas and news agency Efe. During the event, he also referred to the "suspicions of most of the drugs to Central America coming through Venezuelan territory from Colombia."

"Some references in Venezuela point to a real problem of an exit way used by drug traffic, sourcing in Colombia," the minister said in the interview.

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IISS: The FARC financed Chávez before 1999

10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.