WashingtonVenezuela is off Washington’s drug-transit blacklist.
The smuggling routes did not change, only the politics did.
Trump cited “positive steps” under interim President Delcy Rodríguez, though cocaine still moves through Venezuelan territory.
Trump named Colombia’s new president as the reason it could be dropped from the list next.
How each outlet framed it
- InSight Crime leans critical
- investigates behind delisting: cocaine still transits Venezuela via porous Colombia border and Caribbean routes despite policy change
Sources: InSight Crime