Chávez: ‘buffalos will pass through eye of a needle’ before I cede power
President Hugo Chávez today backed his new defense minister, rejecting allegations that he assisted drug traffickers and Colombian guerrillas as a smear campaign against Venezuela’s military.
In 2008, the U.S. Treasury Department described Gen. Henry Rangel Silva (far right) as a "drug kingpin" for the narco-trafficking operations of Colombia’s leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). (...)
