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Illegal drug trade in Venezuela to be vastly overstated". In 2009, a report from the United States Congress said that from 2004 to 2007, the quantity of cocaine exported from Colombia via Venezuela had quadrupled, reaching 17% of world trade in cocaine in 2007. The smuggling of cocaine has increased in Venezuela in the 2010s, going from about 25% of South American cocaine coming from the country in 2010 to about 33% in 2015. Illegal drug trade in Venezuela Illegal drug trade in Venezuela is the practice of illegal drug trade in Venezuela. Venezuela has been a path to the United States for illegal drugs