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In testimony today at 2:30 pm before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, AEI Latin America expert Roger Noriega warns that, with Venezuela’s narcostate abetting criminal networks, the threat of illegal drug trafficking to US security has never been more dangerous. As the crisis over the US-Mexico border continues, Noriega also explains that migrants are driven to the border by transnational organized crime, which sows instability in Latin America.
Noriega describes the drug problem in Latin America:
The global transnational organized crime network grows more powerful every day as it optimizes the supply chain of illicit drugs to the US market. On the other hand, the antidrug alliance that once existed between the United States and responsible governments in Latin America has been lost.
, and its enforcement resources are overwhelmed by illegal migrants.
Noriega recommends that:
to enable investigators to complete their work to sanction and prosecute narco kingpins and choke off cash to criminal groups.
Defeating a criminal regime with massive resources and powerful allies is impossible without the credible threat of the use of force.
, so that President Trump does not resort to unhelpful threats.
Read the full testimony: The Narco Threat to US Security: Venezuela’s Criminal Regime Fuels Regional Instability
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