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hack89

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4. According to the UN , Venezula is the major transhipment point of cocaine to Europe

Reply to nanabugg (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 09:57 AM

Jan 2012

after the cocaine producing countries of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. Over 7 tons of cocaine from Venezuela was seized in Europe in 2009 alone.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2011/World_Drug_Report_2011_ebook.pdf

There was a huge spike in cocaine trafficking from Venezuela as Colombia pushed FARC out of it's usual territory - many drug gangs simply set up in Venezuela.

The US would like to work with Hugo - lets not forget that it was Hugo that stopped cooperating with DIA in 2005.

Hugo really needs to cooperate with Colombia but he refuses.

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We would have had no better partner fighting the drug lords than Hugo but we were and continue to be nanabugg Jan 2012 #1

How VERY true n/t newfie11 Jan 2012 #3

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Funded by US tax dollars, no doubt. Vidar Jan 2012 #6