Venezuela Allows Cocaine Traffickers to Smuggle to U.S.

If true this report is very shocking. But we should keep in mind that the Bush crowd hates the Hugo Chavez regime:

Venezuela has become a significant player in the flow of cocaine from Colombia to the USA by allowing drug smugglers to operate freely and making little effort to cooperate with U.S. anti-drug efforts, a State Department report said Thursday.

The number of flights from Venezuela suspected of ferrying Colombian cocaine to the Dominican Republic and Haiti — key transfer points for U.S.-bound shipments of the drug — increased 167% last year, State Department Assistant Secretary Anne Patterson said. She added that the leftist government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a frequent critic of the United States, has allowed drug trafficking to flourish.