I'll go first.
Here is one of Venezuela's own problems:
2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust - Wikipedia
You next.
Venezuela Crisis: Failed coup attempt by Juan Guaido; Military remains supporting Nicholas Maduro
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Here is one of Venezuela's own problems:
2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust - Wikipedia
You next.
Once again, theres a refusal of the truth and facts.
This article is from 2014!
Venezuela is connected to Iran, Hezbollah, Cuba, drug smuggling and terrorist financing!
The Iran-Cuba-Venezuela Nexus
The Iran-Cuba-Venezuela Nexus
The West underestimates the growing threat from radical Islam in the Americas.
By
Mary Anastasia O’Grady
Nov. 23, 2014 5:11 p.m. ET
Oranjestad, Aruba
Regular readers of this column will remember that in July the U.S. asked local officials here to arrest Venezuelan Gen. Hugo Carvajal and to extradite him on suspicion of drug trafficking with Colombian guerrillas. He was detained but the Netherlands stepped in, refused the extradition request and let him go.
The general had been sent here to become Venezuelan consul and spread Bolivarian propaganda. He would have been an important intelligence grab for the U.S. So it wasn’t too surprising that Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua and Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, celebrated the Dutch decision by meeting his plane when he returned to Caracas.
The third person in the high-level greeting party at the airport—the governor of the state of Aragua, Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah—seemed out of place because he is not in the national government. That is until you consider his résumé: One part master of Middle-Eastern networking, one part honorary Cuban revolutionary, and one part highly ambitious chavista, Mr. El Aissami is a dream come true for Tehran and Havana. That makes him a powerful man in Venezuela.
Tareck El AissamiAgence France-Presse/Getty Images
Although President Obama is being lobbied by left-wing activists to change U.S.-Cuba policy before the next Summit of the Americas in Panama in April, his options are limited by laws that require congressional action to change. But one important decision in his hands is whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism. Before the president does that, Americans ought to learn about allegations by a regional security analyst of Cuba-supported work by Mr. El Aissami on behalf of radical Islam.
The West is well aware of the growing presence of Islamic fundamentalism in the Americas, but policy makers may be underestimating the threat. Joseph Humire is a security analyst and co-editor of “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America,” a book published earlier this year. In an interview in New York last week, Mr. Humire described Iran’s significant progress, over three decades, in setting up operations in the region.
The earliest stages of the process have featured clandestine operatives using mosques to make connections inside Muslim communities and then using those connections to access wealth and gain political prominence. Where these initial forays have been successful, says Mr. Humire, Iran has opened embassies and established commercial agreements that allow operatives to create businesses, which can be used as fronts for covert operations.
In Venezuela and Bolivia, Iran has moved to the next level, developing a military presence through joint ventures in defense industries. In Venezuela, the state of Aragua, where Mr. El Aissami is now governor, is ground zero for this activity.
Havana applauds this Islamic intervention. Since the rise of chavismo,Cuba has supplied intelligence services to Venezuela and its regional allies, notably Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador. Mr. Humire says it has also supplied passport-information technology to allow these countries to process individuals from the Middle East, hand out new documents and maintain the secrecy of true identities. Cuba has used this capacity to exchange information with like-minded nations, including Russia and Iran.
Raised in Venezuela by a Lebanese-born Muslim father and mentored in the “Utopia 78” left-wing student movement at the University of the Andes, he was Venezuela’s interior minister from 2008-12. According to a June 2014 paper from the Washington-based Center for a Secure Free Society, where Mr. Humire is executive director, “regional intelligence officials” believe that Mr. El Aissami’s office used information technology developed by Cuban state security to give some 173 individuals from the Middle East new Venezuelan identities that are extremely difficult to trace.
The paper, “Canada on Guard: Assessing the Immigration Threat of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba,” says that regional intelligence officials believe that “of the more notable persons of interest” who received false papers from Caracas was Suleiman Ghani Abdul Waked, an important member of Lebanese Hezbollah. The same paper, citing interviews with unnamed Latin American intelligence officials, says Mr. El Aissami has built “a criminal-terrorist pipeline bringing militant Islamists into Venezuela and surrounding countries, and sending illicit funds from Latin America to the Middle East.” Mr. Humire told me the Venezuelan government dismissed the report as U.S. propaganda.
Mr. El Aissami’s Aragua state is where Parchin Chemical Industries (PCI) and Qods Aviation, two Iranian military-owned companies, have joint ventures with Venezuela’s military industry, according to “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America.” PCI is a maker of explosives, ammunition and rocket propellant for missiles. Qods is a maker of unmanned aerial vehicles. Both companies have been sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council under Resolution 1747.
The chapter written by Mr. Humire says Havana is now “trying to clear its debt to Iran” in order to receive economic assistance from Tehran. This aid will doubtless be conditioned on greater Iranian access to nations under Cuban influence, including Venezuela, he says. They will likely turn to Mr. El Aissami for help.
Write to O’Grady@wsj.com.
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This article is from 2014!
Venezuela is connected to Iran, Hezbollah, Cuba, drug smuggling and terrorist financing!
The Iran-Cuba-Venezuela Nexus
The Iran-Cuba-Venezuela Nexus
The West underestimates the growing threat from radical Islam in the Americas.
By
Mary Anastasia O’Grady
Nov. 23, 2014 5:11 p.m. ET
Oranjestad, Aruba
Regular readers of this column will remember that in July the U.S. asked local officials here to arrest Venezuelan Gen. Hugo Carvajal and to extradite him on suspicion of drug trafficking with Colombian guerrillas. He was detained but the Netherlands stepped in, refused the extradition request and let him go.
The general had been sent here to become Venezuelan consul and spread Bolivarian propaganda. He would have been an important intelligence grab for the U.S. So it wasn’t too surprising that Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua and Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, celebrated the Dutch decision by meeting his plane when he returned to Caracas.
The third person in the high-level greeting party at the airport—the governor of the state of Aragua, Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah—seemed out of place because he is not in the national government. That is until you consider his résumé: One part master of Middle-Eastern networking, one part honorary Cuban revolutionary, and one part highly ambitious chavista, Mr. El Aissami is a dream come true for Tehran and Havana. That makes him a powerful man in Venezuela.
Tareck El AissamiAgence France-Presse/Getty Images
Although President Obama is being lobbied by left-wing activists to change U.S.-Cuba policy before the next Summit of the Americas in Panama in April, his options are limited by laws that require congressional action to change. But one important decision in his hands is whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism. Before the president does that, Americans ought to learn about allegations by a regional security analyst of Cuba-supported work by Mr. El Aissami on behalf of radical Islam.
The West is well aware of the growing presence of Islamic fundamentalism in the Americas, but policy makers may be underestimating the threat. Joseph Humire is a security analyst and co-editor of “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America,” a book published earlier this year. In an interview in New York last week, Mr. Humire described Iran’s significant progress, over three decades, in setting up operations in the region.
The earliest stages of the process have featured clandestine operatives using mosques to make connections inside Muslim communities and then using those connections to access wealth and gain political prominence. Where these initial forays have been successful, says Mr. Humire, Iran has opened embassies and established commercial agreements that allow operatives to create businesses, which can be used as fronts for covert operations.
In Venezuela and Bolivia, Iran has moved to the next level, developing a military presence through joint ventures in defense industries. In Venezuela, the state of Aragua, where Mr. El Aissami is now governor, is ground zero for this activity.
Havana applauds this Islamic intervention. Since the rise of chavismo,Cuba has supplied intelligence services to Venezuela and its regional allies, notably Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador. Mr. Humire says it has also supplied passport-information technology to allow these countries to process individuals from the Middle East, hand out new documents and maintain the secrecy of true identities. Cuba has used this capacity to exchange information with like-minded nations, including Russia and Iran.
Raised in Venezuela by a Lebanese-born Muslim father and mentored in the “Utopia 78” left-wing student movement at the University of the Andes, he was Venezuela’s interior minister from 2008-12. According to a June 2014 paper from the Washington-based Center for a Secure Free Society, where Mr. Humire is executive director, “regional intelligence officials” believe that Mr. El Aissami’s office used information technology developed by Cuban state security to give some 173 individuals from the Middle East new Venezuelan identities that are extremely difficult to trace.
The paper, “Canada on Guard: Assessing the Immigration Threat of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba,” says that regional intelligence officials believe that “of the more notable persons of interest” who received false papers from Caracas was Suleiman Ghani Abdul Waked, an important member of Lebanese Hezbollah. The same paper, citing interviews with unnamed Latin American intelligence officials, says Mr. El Aissami has built “a criminal-terrorist pipeline bringing militant Islamists into Venezuela and surrounding countries, and sending illicit funds from Latin America to the Middle East.” Mr. Humire told me the Venezuelan government dismissed the report as U.S. propaganda.
Mr. El Aissami’s Aragua state is where Parchin Chemical Industries (PCI) and Qods Aviation, two Iranian military-owned companies, have joint ventures with Venezuela’s military industry, according to “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America.” PCI is a maker of explosives, ammunition and rocket propellant for missiles. Qods is a maker of unmanned aerial vehicles. Both companies have been sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council under Resolution 1747.
The chapter written by Mr. Humire says Havana is now “trying to clear its debt to Iran” in order to receive economic assistance from Tehran. This aid will doubtless be conditioned on greater Iranian access to nations under Cuban influence, including Venezuela, he says. They will likely turn to Mr. El Aissami for help.
Write to O’Grady@wsj.com.
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Secure Da Bag
Veteran
Drug dealers got on a plane. Have you proved gov't connections with that? Wiki article didn't show any.
Deteriorating oil infrastructure, Venezuela's fault.
https://www.thecoli.com/posts/33510527/
I just got caught up...
Either the CIA is putting in SERIOUS work down there, or Maduro is gonna get the Quaddafi treatment
His very 1st post on the subject.
See how you knew the U.S. was already trying to fukk up Venezuela?
Honestly, I don't know what point you think you're making. Honestly, I don't think you know what point you're making.
Here you go:
How Cuba Helped Make Venezuela a Mafia State
Read the details. Go ahead. I've got time.
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
In that same article, the U.S. was throwing sanctions at Venezuela as well. So we're back to my original point. U.S. helped destabilize Venezuela.
And crossing facts that don't fit your narrative is
.Do you know how timelines work?In that same article, the U.S. was throwing sanctions at Venezuela as well. So we're back to my original point. U.S. helped destabilize Venezuela.
And crossing facts that don't fit your narrative is
Venezuela did drug smuggling.
Then came sanctions.
@For Da Bag Please don't be in a rush. It took me 2 hours to read that article and all the links inside. Read it. Seriously. Lets have some real discussion here.
I'm not going to let you scroll through bullshyt. Theres a reason I can cite things so quickly, and its not for lack of effort.
I'm not going to let you scroll through bullshyt. Theres a reason I can cite things so quickly, and its not for lack of effort.
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
You literally were talking about why sanctions happened. They didn't just appear out of nowhere.That doesn't contradict what I said. Keep trying though.
Venezuela was enabling money laundering to fund Hezbollah.
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
I'll sidestep the jokes you just opened yourself up to. I've already acknowledged Venezuela has fukked up. But your attempt to act as if the U.S. played no part in Venezuela's woes is not helping this discussion.
Show me examples of Venezuela fukking up.
Why is it OK for Venezuela to bully a much poorer Guyana? The $20 Billion Question for Guyana
Disclosure
Pro
If you think that a change in government will work in Guyana's favor vis-à-vis Venezuela's land claim, look at Leopoldo Lopez shirt the very first second of this video.
or look at the logo of venezuela aid
Most people in venezuela have been brainwashed since at least the 1970's into believing that half of Guyana is venezuelan territory. Its probably in Guyana's best interest that Venezuela stay exactly as it is now, an isolated economic basketcase on the verge of collapse.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
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After a dramatic week that saw a clandestine plan to oust President Nicolás Maduro fall apart, Juan Guaidó conceded that the opposition had miscalculated its support within the military.
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Guaidó says opposition overestimated military support for uprising
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After a dramatic week that saw a clandestine plan to oust President Nicolás Maduro fall apart, Juan Guaidó conceded that the opposition had miscalculated its support within the military.
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Guaidó says opposition overestimated military support for uprising
