Venezuela - Threat in South America

This is the same Venezuela that our Vermont Congressman, Bernie Sanders, is cozying up to for some cut-rate heating oil this mild winter, following the lead of left-wing Massachusetts.

"On Venezuela, Negroponte (Chief of U.S. intelligence) said U.S. intelligence
expects President Hugo Chavez to deepen his relationship with Cuban President
Fidel Castro and “seek closer economic, military and diplomatic ties with Iran
and North Korea.” Negroponte said the U.S. is concerned about Chavez’s arms
purchases, using profits from oil production. “I would say that it’s clear that
he is spending hundreds of millions, if not more, for his very extravagant
foreign policy” at the expense of the impoverished Venezuelan population, he
said."