Venezuelan national guard soldiers discharge from a ship about 5 metric tons (5.5 US tons) of cocaine at the port of Carupano, Sucre state, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, March 8, 2003. Venezuelan soldiers seized more than 5.5 US tons of cocaine and 220 pounds of marijuana being hidden in a remote fishing town, the drugs were believed to have come from neighboring Colombia and were destined for the Caribbean island of Trinidad before being dispatched to the United States and Europe. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Hernandez)
I can't but think somehow these drugs will end up enriching Hugo Chavez. The National Guard is in his hip pocket.