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I think it's a lot simpler than that. Venezuela has oil.
Yea.. but the drug markets are underground and include massive money laundering systems. It has often been claimed that the CIA and other black operations get funded this way.
But aside from that... the financial machinery is down there. My understanding is that that is what the Panama Papers was largely about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers