A guard dog attached to the Venezuelan National Guard stands watch as the media is shown more than a ton of seized cocaine ready for shipment in Puerto Cabello, July 27, 2009.REUTERS/Edwin MontilvaFrom Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has charged Bolivia and Venezuela with failing to do enough to fight the drug trade, but said it would continue aid to the two countries, both led by critics of U.S. foreign policy.
In an annual report, the United States said Bolivia -- the world's third-largest cocaine producer -- Venezuela and Myanmar had all "failed demonstrably" to meet their counter-narcotics obligations.
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My Comment: Venezuela is a country that is slowly committing suicide. With one of the highest murder and crime rates in the world .... cocaine production is one of the least of their problems.
ut Bolivia has all the ingredients to be the number #1 producer of cocaine. Poverty that is mixed in with a Bolivian President who is sympathetic to coca farmers is not a good mix to curtail coca production. Expect this mess to only get worse with time.
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