[ETL]

So, we, the US (I don’t know what country you are from, or currently in), in 2006, was selling arms to the Chavez regime?

“Hugo Chávez repeatedly alleged that the US had a plan to invade Venezuela, a plan called Plan Balboa. In interview with Ted Koppel [Sept 2005], Chavez stated “I have evidence that there are plans to invade Venezuela. Furthermore, we have documentation: how many bombers to overfly Venezuela on the day of the invasion, how many trans-Atlantic carriers, how many aircraft carriers...”[13]

“On 20 February 2005, Chávez reported that the U.S. had plans to have him assassinated; he stated that any such attempt would result in an immediate cessation of U.S.-bound Venezuelan petroleum shipments.[15]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Venezuela_relations#Presidency_of_Hugo_Ch.C3.A1vez

[Garth Tater]

Yep. And up until last week we were still sending tourists over to North Korea - you know the place with the crazy guy that wants to kill us all. And did you know, we trade with Iran! Shocker! And Cuba too!!!! What you read in the papers only rarely affects what deals are being done between countries and between companies and people even in supposedly enemy countries.

Most of the talk of war you hear on the news is just there to get the military budgets increased and to keep the local populations from noticing what dickheads their leaders are. Lil Kim is not going to blow up Guam. He can't. Russia is not going to take over the world. They can't. Venezuela is undergoing economic and political collapse. In a year or two they will be best friends again with the Yankee gringos - at least long enough to get a good deal on spare parts for their F-16s. That Cold War propaganda really got into your head good, didn't it?

[ETL]

Looks like there may be some truth in what you said, or looked up...

“since May 2006, the Department of State that, pursuant to Section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act, has prohibited the sale of defense articles and services to Venezuela because of lack of cooperation on anti-terrorism efforts.[19]”