(8 Sep 2025)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 8 September 2025
1. Various of Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez during news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuelan Vice President:
"Those ships that are trying to intimidate Venezuela today should be there in the Pacific if they truly wanted to fight and prevent cocaine from reaching the United States of America. They should be stationed there. In a sense, it’s also an erroneous and illicit concept to use warships to combat a common crime. But anyway, there is a GPS location problem; they are where they should not be, they have to calibrate the GPS and go to the Pacific if they do not want cocaine to reach the United States."
3. Rodriguez speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuelan Vice President:
"Then they take a criminal organization that was fiercely fought in Venezuela, such as "Tren de Aragua," and designate it a transnational organization, then designate it a narco-terrorist organization, then they put them on a ship, blow up the ship. They are the wildcards for the violation of international law, because the serious problem that humanity has today is that the United States of America and its satellite governments mock, undermine international law, respect nothing, there are no limits, they impose themselves with lies, fanfare."
5. Rodríguez speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuelan Vice President:
"There’s a lot of hypocrisy, a lot of double standards, a lot of political manipulation of this issue to attack, to intervene, to aim for regime change in countries that aren’t sympathetic."
7. Camera operators
8. Rodriguez leaving news conference
9. Various of facade of oil ministry and the state-owned oil company PDVSA
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s government on Monday insisted that the U.S is falsely accusing the South American government of having a crucial role in the global drug trade.
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez told reporters the U.S. government should redirect its recently deployed maritime force in the Caribbean to the Pacific, suggesting that the countries with shores to the West are most responsible for the cocaine trafficking.
“Those ships that are trying to intimidate Venezuela today should be there in the Pacific if they truly wanted to fight and prevent cocaine from reaching the United States of America,” she said. “They have a GPS location problem. They’re where they shouldn’t be. They need to calibrate their GPS.”
Rodríguez who is also Venezuela’s oil minister, said the U.S. uses criminal organizations such as "Tren de Aragua" to impose lies and violate international law.
"There are no limits, they impose themselves with lies, fanfare," Rodriguez said.
Citing U.N. and DEA reports, she added that Venezuela “has absolutely nothing to do with the deaths of (U.S.) citizens from drug overdoses” as the country "is not relevant" in global drug production and suggested the U.S. should focus its efforts to combat consumption within its borders.
“There’s a lot of hypocrisy, a lot of double standards, a lot of political manipulation of this issue to attack, to intervene, to aim for regime change in countries that aren’t sympathetic,” she said referring to drug trafficking.
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