"President Hugo Chávez threats to expel from Venezuela US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents by accusing them of spying have not been carried out. As a result, they still work in the country, DEA Administrator Karen Tandy declared Monday.
'We never left,' the director of the agency operating in 85 countries around the world for anti-drug efforts, stressed.
Instead, Tandy clarified, the parties are preparing a memorandum of understanding for joint anti-drug efforts.
Her remarks were made during the submittal of the 2006 United Nations (UN) World Report on anti-drug efforts in Washington, when replying to a reporter about DEA strategy to operate again in Venezuela, AP quoted.
Based on the report submitted by Antonio María Costa, the UN director for drugs and crime affairs, Venezuela is a transit for drug traffic. In 2004, 31.2 tons of cocaine, twice the amount of 2000, was seized."
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