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2008-01-22 Caribbean-Latin America

Hugo moves troops to the Columbian border

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Posted by lotp 2008-01-22 15:10|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The only reason behind such seziures would be to prevent free trade.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-22 15:39|| 2008-01-22 15:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The Venezuelan National Guard said Monday it seized about 550 tons of milk, rice and other foods being shuttled across the border in trucks.

Hide it in truckloads of cocaine.

Posted by Pappy 2008-01-22 16:56|| 2008-01-22 16:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The only reason behind such seizures would be to prevent free trade.

Black market trade when the white market collapses. Zim land is not too far off. It's got to be good duty cause the record shows that the bribe money in such environment is definitely effective to offset the loss of buying power of the troops not on the capital payoff ~~Praetorian~~ duty near El Jefe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-22 17:14|| 2008-01-22 17:14|| Front Page Top

#4 They must be messing with his Cocoa supply.

Posted by danking70 2008-01-22 17:33|| 2008-01-22 17:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Venezuelans have suffered shortages of basic products like milk, chicken and sugar recently as the oil-producing country's robust economic growth has far exceeded agricultural production.

I wondered what sort of economic illiterate it would take to write this sentence. Then I saw the words "Seattle Post-Intelligencer".

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-22 19:18|| 2008-01-22 19:18|| Front Page Top

#6 don't we have a armed-assistance agreement with Columbia? Retroactively dated?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-22 20:53|| 2008-01-22 20:53|| Front Page Top

#7 How very progressive

Posted by macofromoc 2008-01-22 20:53|| 2008-01-22 20:53|| Front Page Top

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