Petro: The Cartel of the Suns doesn't exist, it's a right

Colombian President Gustavo Petro asserted that the Cartel of the Suns is a fictitious excuse concocted by the far right to overthrow governments.

The Colombian president asserted that the narrative of the Cartel of the Suns is being used by the U.S. administration to criminalize Venezuela and carry out a military intervention that would allow them to control its resources.

"It's the far right's fictitious excuse to overthrow governments that don't obey them," Petro asserted.

He clarified on his social media account X that the passage of Colombian cocaine through Venezuela is controlled by the Drug Trafficking Board and its bosses live in Europe and the Middle East.

Petro also emphasized that he has proposed to the United States and Venezuela that they jointly destroy the cartel.

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