Maduro announced the destruction of nine drug traffickers' planes in a day.

In Venezuela, nine planes belonging to drug traffickers were destroyed in a day. This was announced on December 30 by President Nicolas Maduro.

"Nine planes involved in drug trafficking were destroyed in 24 hours," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to Maduro, this year the Air Force (Air Force) Venezuela destroyed 39 such aircraft.

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Caracas provides a quarter of the island nation's needs.

Earlier that day, CNN reported that representatives of the US CIA had used drones to strike a port facility located on the coast of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, where drugs and ships were allegedly stored for their distribution.

US President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that a large facility had been destroyed in Venezuela, where, according to him, ships were allegedly loaded with drugs. He stated that this zone "no longer exists," at that time he did not disclose the name of the destroyed port building.

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