Chancellor: imperial policy to combat drugs has 51 years of failure

During her participation in the special session on the world drug problem, which is carried out at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York, the Chancellor of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, representing Venezuela, said that considering drugs as a security threat, has diverted the true way to address an issue of public health, which has led to interventions on behalf of the so-called «war on drugs».
She said that Venezuela shares a vision based on the democratic respect for human rights, and noted that «the warmongering and interventionist imperialist policies that have been applied in the name of fighting drugs have failed.»
«There have been 51 years of failure (…) we must move from a warmongering policy towards a truly democratic policy,» she said.
Finally, she reminded that Venezuela was declared by the UN as a country free of (drugs) cultivation. «We are not a producer nor a consumer country of drugs, much less a nation where assets are legitimated from drug trafficking.»