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??? I never said they would be returned to power. How does it not make sense? You think it is all about oil? It's about geopolitical positioning against Russia and China. It's about global drug trafficking and corruption/crime. How can you be so obtuse regarding this?

Seriously. How the fuck are so many reluctant to look at what is and just be blinded by political bias and hatred. For fucks sake...please wake up...you are better than that:


Venezuela’s Drug-Running Generals May Be Who Finally Ousts Maduro

By Alaa al-Ameri
March 31, 2014, 2:10pm

https://www.vice.com/en/article/venezuelas-drug-running-generals-may-be-who-finally-ousts-maduro/

Wake the fuck up ...please :)

With its extensive Caribbean coastline and porous border with Colombia, Venezuela has long been a key route for wholesale shipments of cocaine. Many of these shipments belong to the Marxist FARC rebels, who fund their decades-long war against the Colombian government with massive narco-trafficking operations. Venezuelan territory became an even more attractive pathway once Chavez kicked out America’s DEA in 2005. Colombia, in the meantime, was doubling down on its partnership with the DEA, making it ever harder to move cocaine through Colombian ports.

The Chavez government was repeatedly accused by Colombian authorities of maintaining operational links to the FARC — accusations that Chavez fiercely denied. However, several laptops retrieved after the killing of FARC spokesman Raul Reyes in 2008 suggested otherwise. Correspondences on the laptops allegedly confirmed the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Russian and Chinese weaponry to the FARC by the Chavez government