US President Donald Trump has designated Venezuela as one of the countries that failed to adhere to its international counternarcotics agreements, the White House said in a press release.
“With the end of the Maduro dictatorship rife with criminal elements, the United States will have a much better opportunity to work with Venezuela to stem the flow of drugs leaving South America,” Trump noted.
The US president identified the following countries as “major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries” — Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. “A country’s presence in the foregoing list is not necessarily a reflection of its government’s counternarcotics efforts or level of cooperation with the United States,” Trump noted.