Banner Week for Chavez/Venezuela
Congrats to the socialist dictator Chavez for managing to reverse democracy in his country and now get blacklisted from arms sales by the United States. The State Department said:
U.S. sales and licenses for the export of defense articles and services to Venezuela, including the re-transfer of defense articles, will not be permitted. In addition, amendments to existing foreign military sales cases will not be allowed for Venezuela.
As we have stated in the past, due to our concerns regarding Venezuela’s multi-billion dollar arms acquisition program, we have closely scrutinized all arms transfers to Venezuela.
The not fully cooperating designation will end all commercial arms sales and retransfers to Venezuela.
As if that wasn’t enough, Venezuelan General Alberto Muller Rojas says they’ll consider selling F-16 fighters to Iran. Let’s hope the CIA and Pentagon are making plans for these guys.
