Alejandro Giammattei, President of Guatemala, has accused his US counterpart of looking the other way on drugs that are distributed from Venezuela and end up in the United States. The counterpart would be the importation of another precious commodity: oil.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has excited an energy crisis rooted in fossil (fuel) phobia and Ukraine's allied countries, such as the United States, are trying not to buy Russian oil or gas. This forces them to look for alternative sources of oil.
"We provide the dead."
Giammattei made these statements in an interview with Breitbart. In it, the Guatemalan president reviewed his government's efforts in the fight against drug trafficking and condemned the US for singling out his country. "The fault is here," he said, referring to the US. "Fifty percent of the drugs consumed in the world are consumed here," he added.
"Here we have to control consumption and money laundering," warned the Guatemalan president, before stating forcefully: "We do the work in pursuit. We also do the dead due to the confrontations between cartels".
Cocaine in exchange for oil
But the main accusation is another one: "We see every day that planes come down to Venezuela (...) and they are empty. And they go up with drugs (...) If we know where the planes leave from, why hasn't the United States done anything to stop the planes from leaving Venezuela?". He himself provided the answer: "Ah, sorry. They are negotiating oil.
Colombia, Peru and Bolivia are the main cocaine producers, but Venezuela plays a major role in the distribution of the drug to the world's main consumer, which, as Giammattei states, is the United States.
