Chevez spent $33 billion to influence neighbors
Miami Herald:
While he has helped get a few leftist elected they have made the mistake of governing like leftist which means they are making their people worse off. None can match the progress made by Uribe in Colombia.Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has spent close to $33 billion to influence the regional politics of Latin America, helping to finance the economies of nations such as Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, a former U.S. intelligence official has testified before the U.S. Congress.
The Venezuelan government also provided resources to Colombia's FARC guerrillas, the Basque separatist group known as ETA and Islamic organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, according to Norman Bailey.
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