U.S. troops accused of arming Colombian death squads
Two soldiers arrested in raid

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It marks the latest U.S. embarrassment in this South American nation. On March 29, five U.S. soldiers were arrested after 15 kilograms of cocaine was found aboard a U.S. military plane that flew to El Paso, Texas, from the Apiay airbase east of Bogota.
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And of course this has absolutely nothing to do with Venezuela right? Especially since many former Iran-contra, death-squad coordinating members are back in power...

Otto Reich (invovled in the 2002 military coup in venezuela)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Reich

Elliot Abrams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/abra-f10.shtml

John Negroponte
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

and it looks like they got caught doing this by proxy before...

Another Contra Scandal?
http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia121.htm

Whats more interestingare the remarks made by Rummy a little while back criticizing venezuela, not for making nuklear weapons or bombs, but plain old guns
"I can't imagine what's going to happen to 100,000 AK-47s. I can't imagine why Venezuela needs 100,000 AK-47s. I just hope that, personally hope, that it doesn't happen", he said. "I can't imagine that if it did happen, that it would be good for the hemisphere." --Rumsfeld
http://news.usti.net/home/news/cn/?/news.issues.guns/1/wed/bb/Uvenezuela-rumsfeld.Ro7G_FMO.html