MAGA activist and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps Laura Loomer said on Dec. 8 that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela. Loomer said on Dec. 8 on the social platform X that while she has “no sympathy for narcoterrorists being killed,” it is “worth noting” that the majority of drugs—including fentanyl—brought into the U.S. are trafficked through Mexico. “Fentanyl isn’t being manufactured in Venezuela,” she added.
The Hill cites a Drug Enforcement Agency report from May saying that fentanyl, the most dangerous opioid, is frequently trafficked into the country via Chinese producers and Mexican criminal organizations. Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, meanwhile, are the primary source countries for cocaine entering the U.S. The report also notes that the transnational Venezuela gang, Tren de Aragua, conducts “small-scale” drug trafficking, such as tusi distribution. There is no mention of Venezuelan suppliers in the report’s section on fentanyl.
Loomer said on Dec. 8 that “it makes a lot of sense to start with neutralizing the Mexican cartels” and Chinese producers, as “that’s where most of the damage is coming from.” She added, “It makes me wonder why this hasn’t been done … surely the [Pentagon] knows where all of the Mexican drug lords live.”
