MIAMI – Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, and Venezuela appear on a list of more than a dozen Latin American and Caribbean countries that the United States identifies as the largest drug producers in the world. The payroll is part of a document signed by President Donald Trump that was released Wednesday by the White House.
It also includes Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru, among Latin Americans; and the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas, and Belize, among the Caribbean.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is also presented as one of the largest drug traffickers in the Americas.
Only five of the 22 countries in the complete list do not belong to Latin America and the Caribbean: Afghanistan, Burma, India, Laos, and Pakistan.