Source: CounterPunch
by Eric Ross
“Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a ‘narco-state,’ exporting terrorism to the U.S. via fentanyl, now labeled as a ‘weapon of mass destruction.’ The charge is not only false, given that virtually no fentanyl enters the country from Venezuela, but transparently political and pretextual. This hypocrisy was made unmistakable with Trump’s recent pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in 2024 in a U.S. federal court on drug trafficking charges. … This accusation collapses further when placed in broader historical context. For decades, the most powerful state actors facilitating and protecting narcotics trafficking have not been Washington’s adversaries but Washington itself.” (12/30/25)