Venezuela air force destroyed 39 drug-carrying planes in 2025
–Venezuelan air force destroyed 39 drug-carrying planes in 2025, bringing the total number of such planes to 430 since the adoption of the anti-drug law, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said.
“I want to congratulate our armed forces, our territorial defense complex, and especially our air defense and military aviation, because the 31st drug-carrying plane of this year was shot down yesterday in Apure State,” the Venezuelan leader said, as reported by News Armenia website.
He added that a Venezuelan military aircraft on Monday destroyed eight drug-trafficking planes in the Amazonas State near the border with Brazil, bringing the total to 39 this year.
Maduro stressed that 430 drug-carrying planes have been shot down and destroyed in Venezuela ever since the country passed a law to combat drugs.
Washington accuses the Venezuelan authorities of insufficiently combating drug trafficking. And President Donald Trump on Monday confirmed a US strike on an area allegedly involved in drug smuggling from Venezuela.
