Venezuela sends 15,000 troops to borders

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/world/americas/venezuela-troops/index.html

Defense Minister Rangel has been labeled a kingpin by the United States
(CNN) -- Venezuela is deploying some 15,000 troops to its borders to combat drug trafficking, the country's defense minister says.

Operation Sentinel, as it is called, will send troops to the frontiers with Colombia, Brazil and Guyana, the state-run AVN news agency reported Friday.

The goal of the operation is to find and dismantle laboratories where illegal drugs are produced, and to root out traffickers, Defense Minister Gen. Henry Rangel Silva said.

"We will carry out intelligence work and patrols to detect the possible camps for processing drugs," he said, according to AVN.

The announcement by Rangel is notable because the United States considers him involved in the drug trade, too.

The United States added Rangel to its kingpin list in 2008, alleging he provided support to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly known as the FARC.

A statement from the Treasury Department at the time said the general "materially assisted the narcotics trafficking activities of the FARC" and pushed for more cooperation between the Venezuelan government and the leftist rebels.

[COLGATE4]

1. He's helping to dismantle the drug processors

the same way that Capone helped to dismantle the Irish Mob in Chicago, and for the same reasons.

[Peace Patriot]

2. And we are to believe in the U.S./Bush Junta "drug kingpin list" because...?

They were always so truthful?

They really, really, REALLY, very, very, VERY sincerely, from the bottoms of their hearts, wanted to stop big drug "kingpins"?



The Obamaites and CNN might be so gullible (or is it complicit?). We citizens ought to--and need to--think things through.

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"The United States added Rangel to its kingpin list in 2008, alleging he provided support to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly known as the FARC."--from the OP

[Bacchus4.0]

3. just look into the Makled case if you want evidence of Ven government officials

involved in drug trafficking and corruption. Venezuela is way high up on the corruption index for a reason.

[Peace Patriot]

4. LOL! nt

[ocpagu]

6. Oh, yes.

"Corruption index". That's what I call a credible list. Almost as credible as the lists of the Freedom House, which during the 1960s and 1970s used to call the latin American facist dictactorships killing people by the dozens of thousands and controlling the press of Partly Free democracies.

[naaman fletcher]

5. My guess is,

That as with the international terrorist lists, the people on them are generally accurate. It's the people not listed, who should be, that is the news.

[ocpagu]

7. What makes them accurate?

Your faith in governmental speech?

[naaman fletcher]

8. I don't

have any specific data point to show you.. just my general impression. My general impression is that the US has a strange dichotomy of on the one hand being a huge promoter of human rights and is still in many ways a beacon of freedom to people, while at the other hand being one of the greatest abusers of human rights and promoter of misery.

In my years traveling the world (before which I never really would have understood the things PP talks about) my general conclusion is that the US does what it does by having a large group of decent people following decent polices (for example, your average USAID worker is a decent person who things they are doing good things, while not knowing the harm that is being done), while then having a small group that perverts the good deeds and intentions (that small group of course not being "a few bad apples" because they are in fact doing the bidding of the elite).

Anyway, its just a simple observation that the "do-gooders" are usually correct in what they state, and that the bad guys just keep their tools out of the limelight. So for example, the FARC were bad guys, but Uribe was kept away from judgement.

that of course is opposite of the prevailing theory here that everything is black and white and one is either a saint or the devil.