Posted on 10/05/2006 4:11:35 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Intelligence agents will be commissioned to Brazilian embassies in Venezuela and Bolivia, as the two countries have become a matter of concern in the hemisphere, official sources said Thursday.
The Institutional Security Cabinet under the President's Office confirmed AFP the news disseminated in newspaper "Estado de Minas." Officials explained that they are not covert agents, but attaches who will cooperate with the domestic staff of the countries where they will be deployed.
The Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) started a process of internal selection of the officials who will be appointed to Caracas and La Paz.
To date, Brazil had intelligence attaches only in Buenos Aires, Washington and Key West, Florida.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.eluniversal.com ...
verry interesting
The Venezuelan thug and its Morales protege in Bolivia have been extorting and blackmailing Brazil in order to sell the Brazilians fuel oil and natural gas.
The thugs have nationalized the fuel industries in their respective hellholes, impounded all extra-national equipment, including billions in equipment Brazil can ill-afford to just surrender, and proceeded to cut the supply of fuel to Brazil to make the prices go up.
When I was in Brazil last year, the prices were already more than US$4.50 a gallon (R$2.49 por litro). I don't know what they are now, but I'm sure they're higher.
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