[sgtbono2002]

I wouldnt be surprised to see Chavez buy up the Coca ,purify it and sell it to America's drug dealers as a means of attacking this country.

[Amalie]

This is big money. We are already dealing with problems from the Afgani regime due to the fact that opium production is up and too many poor Afghani farmers have no other means of making real money. However, this is a more troubling development for many reasons, especially the political realities of Chavez 'buying' allies in the region with this money.

[Amalie]

This is big money. We are already dealing with problems from the Afgani regime due to the fact that opium production is up and too many poor Afghani farmers have no other means of making real money. However, this is a more troubling development for many reasons, especially the political realities of Chavez 'buying' allies in the region with this money.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Exactly.

[MirrorField]

I wouldnt be surprised to see Chavez buy up the Coca ,purify it and sell it to America's drug dealers as a means of attacking this country.

This is what I suspect too. International isolation means that you don't have to care about international opinion.

State-supported cocaine cartel, possibly crewed with trained and professional specforce troops (state-sponsored and -trained terrorists in all but name) would make Medellin cartel look like an amateur operation. The profits would be enormous (ie. on level of nation-state budgets), all while damaging the hated enemy.

All hail the War on Drugs making this possible!