The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, made a decision and announced that the country’s armed forces had destroyed So far, 39 planes are believed to be linked to drug trafficking in 2025. In a message published this Tuesday on his social networks, the president … takes stock of the year by revealing this information to counter the attack by the United States revealed at the beginning of the week.
Although Washington still does not officially confirm it, the American army has carried out an operation against a “large factory from which the ships come” and that it was destroyed on the 24th, but this information was not known until five days later.
The latest attacks in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific prompted Maduro to reveal that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and military aviation had managed to shoot down 39 planes so far this year, nine of them in just 24 hours, a “record” number and 430 since the application of the Venezuelan law against illegal flights.
“I congratulate the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the military aviation for their vigilance, we are finishing a year of offensive against criminal gangs and all the enemies of the country,” he wrote on his Telegram and Instagram profiles. During these days Maduro said Venezuela had an “exemplary” model in the fight against crime, criminal gangs and drug trafficking. “by land, air and sea”.
The FANB announced on Monday that it had destroyed eight planes in Amazonas state, allegedly linked to drug trafficking and accused of not respecting local airspace laws, and another in the Apure region. On his Instagram account, the operational strategic commander of the military institution, Domingo Hernández Lárez, detailed that the operation in Amazon The investigation took place in the municipality of Alto Orinoco, on the border with Brazil, where four destroyed camps were also discovered. Hernández Lárez assured that the planes were “operating on illegal clandestine runways”, which, he warned, constituted a “flagrant” violation of the law of the country.
In another operation, the army destroyed in Apure a plane that did not have the corresponding authorizations to be in the country nor a flight plan, according to Hernández Lárez. Venezuela has intensified its defense after the United States last August ordered a naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea, near Venezuelan waters, under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking, but which Caracas interprets as a “threat” and an attempt to promote regime change.
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