Reply #2: Many thanks, hope you hear something from your friend

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As you know that is a big fuss about the seven military bases the Pentagon is hurriedly trying to get in Colombia.

About two/three years ago Rumsfeld wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post in which he basically outlined the script for a war against Venezuela to take over its vast oil deposits.

There is much concern in Latin America that the seven bases in Colombia will be seven daggers pointed directly at Venezuela and to a lesser extent, Ecuador, which has oil under its jungle floor.

That was what reminded me that Rumsfeld had been reported living in Taos and I am curious whether he is still there and what he does around town.

p.s. drop into the Latin America forum now and then, interesting topics there that are hardly mentioned in the English-language media.