News from narco-friendly Venezuela

Remember how Venezuela is directly responsible for the world cocaine trafficking business, even though it doesn't grow any coca, produce any cocaine and is totally guilty of everything whitepowdery just cos happens to be stuck between the world's biggest producer of the stuff and the world's biggest user of the stuff? Recall how Hugo Chávez himself is directly responsible for the cocaine that your twenty month old boy is snorting up his nose?

So how come Venezuela is having a record year for cocaine interception, confiscation and arrests of traffickers? Riddle me that one, oh brainwashed masses. Here's the latest, a tidy haul of the stuff seized en route to gawdknows where and coming from Colombia.

San Cristóbal, 14 Dic. ABN: Members of the Number 1 Regional Command of the Bolivarian National Guard in the state of Tachira, under the order of Brigade General Franklin Jaimes Márquez, successfully seized 14.15kg of presumed cocaine from a secret compartment in the motor of a vehicle, the drug destined for the state of Barinas continues here

The big seizures tend to catch the big news stories, but that's not how it works at ground level. The seizures go on and on, day after day and week after week. 55kg here, another 38kg there, here's 57kg found in sacks of carrots, another 47kg in this report, not to mention a couple of tonnes of mary jane from time to time. All those above links are captures in Venezuela. All in the last three weeks. It all came from Colombia.

And wait! What's this? Colombia's manual eradication program for 2009 was supposed to get rid of 70,000 hectares of coca plants. The result? Just 54,180 hectares. Hugo Chávez is directly responsible for the failure of Colombia to control its illegal crops too, ya knowz.

Ever had the feeling they've been lying to you?