El Aissami: the accusations of complicity in drug trafficking made by OFAC, are unfounded
Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami during an interview on Televen said that the accusations of complicity in drug trafficking made by the US Treasury Department are unfounded, the office in charge of the matter, the OFAC, has not been able to show evidence because does not evidence exists. According to El Aissami the OFAC can refer to the testimonies of four drug traffickers extradited to the US when he was Minister of Justice and the Interior, these outrageous accusations towards the Venezuelan government would part of, according to the Vice President, a larger plan, organized by ‘Obama administration to put in an unfavorable light the Bolivarian revolution, convincing the people to rebel against a legitimately constituted government, with the help of the opposition.