9-Jan-2012 - World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: New Defense Minister

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President buy headphones online Hugo Chávez on Friday appointed as defense minister Gen. Henry Rangel Silva, whom the United States has described as a drug kingpin linked to cocaine smuggling from neighboring Colombia. Mr. Chávez has repeatedly denied Washington’s accusations that his government has turned a blind eye to drug trafficking. He is expected to shuffle his cabinet in the coming cheap monster headphones days to pave the way for several of his current ministers to run in regional elections this year. In 2008, the United States Treasury Department accused General Rangel and another high-ranking cheap headset online officer of materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities of Colombia’s FARC rebels. Both men deny any wrongdoing.

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