[News] DEA Tried To Stage A False-Flag Operation Against Venezuela: Minister Cabello

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DEA Tried To Stage A False-Flag Operation Against Venezuela: Minister
Cabello - teleSUR English
Carlos Cabrera
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Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, Sept. 17, 2025. Photo:
teleSUR
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September 17, 2025
The DEA was involved in the drug trafficking plot, he said.

On Wednesday, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello accused the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) of attempting to stage a false-flag
operation against Venezuela.

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“In a go-fast boat, Venezuelan forces found 3,680 kilos of cocaine, a GPS
device, two radios, 2,400 liters of fuel and 100 sacks of cocaine
hydrochloride,” the minister said and recalled that Venezuela has seized 60
tons of drugs this year, the largest amount confiscated since 2010.

Cabello said the destabilizing action was foiled after Venezuelan
authorities arrested four people who were trying to traffic drugs and fuel.

“This is how you prove a fact — not by bombing a vessel,” Cabello said,
referring to a U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean that was allegedly
carrying drugs.

“We have fully identified those responsible, but we did not kill them. We
have no authority to impose the death penalty on anyone,” he emphasized.

Previously, using information provided by Venezuelan intelligence agencies,
members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) waited for a small
boat from the Colombian department of La Guajira to pass for 20 hours.

Following international drug interdiction protocols, the FANB members
immediately called the crew to halt, but they surrendered when they found
themselves surrounded.

“Who owns those drugs?… The drug operator is a man named Levi Enrique Lopez
Batis. I’m going to say this with full knowledge of the facts and let it be
very clear: he is a DEA agent and a drug trafficker. It was a false flag
operation,” Cabello stressed.

The Boliviarian minister also pointed out a “curious and strange” fact: the
four detainees had their Venezuelan ID cards “ready to be handed over.”

“This false flag operation seeks to accuse Venezuela of any of the
atrocities carried out by the DEA, the largest drug cartel in the world,”
Cabello stated.

*teleSUR/ JF*

*Source: VTV – AVN – El Universal*
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