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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 03:14 PM Jan 2017

A suspected terrorist and drug trafficker just became Venezuela's vice president

https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspected-terrorist-drug-trafficker-just-212503167.html

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the successor to the late socialist President Hugo Chavez, announced on Wednesday that former minister Tareck El Aissami would become vice president of the country.

That means that, in a country of complete and utter chaos — where people are starving, healthcare is nonexistent, electricity is scarce, and vigilante justice is becoming a norm — a suspected terrorist is one heartbeat away from the highest office in the land.

El Aissami is a known entity in the world of US intelligence. He is allegedly a part of Venezuela's state drug-trafficking network and has ties to Iran, Syria, and Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.

And if Maduro is ousted, as his opposition is calling for, El Aissami will become the president of a failed state in America's backyard.

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A suspected terrorist and drug trafficker just became Venezuela's vice president (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Jan 2017 OP
Sounds like Madura go some job security Renew Deal Jan 2017 #1
Who, besides the Gateway Foundation Uponthegears Jan 2017 #2
Not too farfetched to think when Maduro's nephews were recently found guilty of drug trafficking Marksman_91 Jan 2017 #3
 

Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)
2. Who, besides the Gateway Foundation
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 03:51 PM
Jan 2017

and its head, Trump Toady John Bolton (who has ties to right wing global capitalist death squads), has publicly endorsed the "interesting" allegation that El Aissami is supplying Venezuelan drugs to the ME?

 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
3. Not too farfetched to think when Maduro's nephews were recently found guilty of drug trafficking
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 10:19 PM
Jan 2017

Just saying

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