Does Venezuelan Weapons Ban Seem Extreme To Anyone Else?

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Probably a bit like erector sets…but with battery terminals and nipple clamps.

-Joe

Usually, interrogator sets are part of “friend or foe” radar. It’s the bit that sends out the signal to the other plane/boat/whatever, asking for identifying information, and then receives that information.

I don’t know if that’s what we sold them, even though in the context of the article, it doesn’t look like it. Although, maybe the reporter found out we sold them “interrogator sets” and assumed it was for policing, so lumped it in with riot gear.

Yeh . . . but Chavez was democratically elected without the quote marks.

Well, poverty in the U.S. is a worse problem than the official figures suggest, but I wouldn’t say most Americans are living in poverty . . . Oh, you meant Chavez! As it happens, he’s distributing plenty of largesse at home, too. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050411/parenti

So, did we ever figure out how many weapons were being sold to Venezuela in the first place? Is this embargo symbolic or not?

See post #18.

Ah, thanks. I read it when it was originally posted, but forgot all about it.