Posted on 09/16/2019 10:05:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the mid-2000s attempted to coordinate with Colombian guerrillas to flood the United States with cocaine, according to federal prosecutors' documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
According to the documents, former Venezuelan Supreme Court Magistrate Eladio Aponte took part in a meeting where Chávez in 2005 convened his closest advisers to draw up plans to ship cocaine to the United States with the help of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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“During the meeting, Chávez urged the group, in substance and in part, to promote his policy objectives, including to combat the United States by ‘flooding’ the country with cocaine,” read an affidavit prepared by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) based at least in part on Aponte's testimony.
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He needed the money.
The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money
Did Sean Penn buy it all?
I remember one of the Kenyanesian Usurper’s minions extolling the “wonderful revolution” they were having in Venezuela.
Communism kills.
The same excuse used to take out pineapple face in Panama. Democratically elected President.
Wonder if any made it to Flint, MI?
With the emphasis on "HE." It merely lined his pockets and was used to buy off close cronies and relatives.
Smuggled back into the States by Shawn Penn and other Leftest movie people .
Chemical warfare with a weapon of mass destruction - cocaine.
Drug dealers need to be executed.
I always wondered what Juan Valdez had on the other side of his Folgers coffee plantation.
Haven’t heard from him in quite a while!
“Venezuela’s Chavez worked with Marxist guerrillas to inundate US with cocaine”
How bout Mexico’s past decades of presidents have run a NARCO state ruled by the cartels ?
Selling ice to Eskimos.
Standard Communist tactic against the U.S. since the 1950s.
wait....Mad Maxine Waters swore in 1997 it was the CIA who flooded the neighborhoods with cocaine ....
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-29-me-23363-story.html
oh wait...that was “crack” cocaine...way different...
nevermind
We didn’t have to take it.
Chavez is worm dirt, Maduro lingers on.
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