Sizing up the Venezuela threat

U.S. General Douglas Fraser yesterday backed up President Barack Obama’s assertion that Venezuela does not represent a threat to U.S. security.
The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, criticized Obama’s declaration, so Fraser’s phone call to the Associated Press was well-timed.
General Fraser (USAF) has consistently downplayed the Venezuela threat, even as many in Congress and the media have grown increasingly alarmed at what they see from Hugo Chávez’s hostile regime.
Under Fraser, Southern Command has focused on the narcotrafficking and organized crime in Latin America.
Here’s the problem.
Hugo Chávez has converted Venezuela into the greatest narcotrafficking, terrorism, and organized crime threat in the Americas.
His minister of defense is among a dozen Venezuelan officials who have been sanctioned for their involvement in narcoterrorism.
His military is not only compliant with the illicit drug trade, it is complicit with Colombian and Mexican crime syndicates.

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