Nine Venezuelan government officials in the US list of drug trafficking

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http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140510/nine-venezuelan-government-officials-in-the-us-list-of-drug-traffickin

The US government has included in its list of active drug dealers nine senior government officials, including military officers, one diplomat and pro-government politicians. Regardless of the complaints against them, they have kept their tenures.

Concomitantly, a ban from entering US territory on Diosdado Cabello, the Speaker of the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN), is still effective, as the congressman himself revealed on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the revocation of his visa dates back to over ten years, as it takes into account his involvement in the coup attempt of 1992. Like Cabello, some comrades in arms are banned from entering the United States.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of Treasury is the agency responsible for preparing the Specially Designated Nationals list (also known as the SDN list). It was of common knowledge in 2008 when including –by the first time in its history- top Venezuelan government officials for their cooperation with the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

At that time, Captain Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, formerly Minister of the Interior and now Guárico state governor, was listed.