Corruption and Its Uses, from Guatemala to Colombia

Corruption and Its Uses, from Guatemala to Colombia

Ten years after Venezuela stopped cooperating with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2005, corruption continues to be the most important tool in U.S. and allied efforts at destabilizing Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2007, Venezuela's then Interior Minister Pedro Carreño declared "the United States with its Drug Enforcement Agency monopolizes drugs shipments like a cartel". Venezuela suspended work with the DEA in 2005 because, Carreño said, "they were making large transfers of drugs using the cover of handovers under surveillance" but did not carry out "arrests of citizens, the dismantling of a single cartel … We were able to determine that we were clearly in the presence of a new cartel."

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