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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated two senior Venezuelan government officials, Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios and Henry de Jesus Rangel Silva, and one former official, Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, for materially assisting the narcotics trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a narco-terrorist organization.

"Today's designation exposes two senior Venezuelan government officials and one former official who armed, abetted, and funded the FARC, even as it terrorized and kidnapped innocents," said Adam J. Szubin, Director of OFAC. "This is OFAC's sixth action in the last ten months against the FARC. We will continue to target and isolate those individuals and entities that aid the FARC's deadly narco-terrorist activities in the Americas."

Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios is the Director of Venezuela's Military Intelligence Directorate (DGIM). His assistance to the FARC includes protecting drug shipments from seizure by Venezuelan anti-narcotics authorities and providing weapons to the FARC, allowing them to maintain their stronghold of the coveted Arauca Department. Arauca, which is located on the Colombia/Venezuela border, is known for coca cultivation and cocaine production. Carvajal Barrios also provides the FARC with official Venezuelan government identification documents that allow FARC members to travel to and from Venezuela with ease.

Henry de Jesus Rangel Silva, the Director of Venezuela's Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services or DISIP, is in charge of intelligence and counterintelligence activities for the Venezuelan government. Rangel Silva has materially assisted the narcotics trafficking activities of the FARC. He has also pushed for greater cooperation between the Venezuelan government and the FARC.

Ramon Emilio Rodriguez Chacin, who was Venezuela's Minister of Interior and Justice until September 8, is the Venezuelan government's main weapons contact for the FARC. The FARC uses its proceeds from narcotics sales to purchase weapons from the Venezuelan government. Rodriguez Chacin has held numerous meetings with senior FARC members, one of which occurred at the Venezuelan government's Miraflores Palace in late 2007. Rodriguez Chacin has also assisted the FARC by trying to facilitate a $250 million dollar loan from the Venezuelan government to the FARC in late 2007. We cannot confirm whether the loan materialized.

On May 29, 2003, President George W. Bush identified the FARC as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker, or drug kingpin, pursuant to the Kingpin Act. In 2001, the State Department designated the FARC as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224, and in 1997 as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

This OFAC action continues ongoing efforts under the Kingpin Act to apply financial measures against significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations worldwide. In addition to the 75 drug kingpins that have been designated by the President, 460 businesses and individuals have been designated pursuant to the Kingpin Act since June 2000.

Today's action freezes any assets the designated entities and individuals may have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions involving those assets. Penalties for violations of the Kingpin Act range from civil penalties of up to $1,075,000 per violation to more severe criminal penalties. Criminal penalties for corporate officers may include up to 30 years in prison and fines of up to $5,000,000. Criminal fines for corporations may reach $10,000,000. Other individuals face up to 10 years in prison for criminal violations of the Kingpin Act and fines pursuant to Title 18 of the United States Code.

Sourceh: ustreas.gov
Date: September 12, 2008

Venezuela's parliament has approved a new law giving the state a majority share in the distribution of fuel. President Hugo Chavez said the measure was needed to stop intermediary firms from profiting from high oil prices. They will now have a limited role in transporting fuel to the country's petrol stations. This is the latest in a series of state takeovers of private companies by Venezuela's socialist government, including major US oil companies.

Venezuela's national energy company will now control almost all elements of the huge oil industry. Exploration and refining is already handled by the state, with some involvement of private partners. But until now, the transport of petrol was in the hands of dozens of private firms, including some major multinationals. President Hugo Chavez said they were making money at the country's expense.

Nationalisation.
Many transport operators will be forced to sell their businesses to the government or face expropriation. Critics have suggested the huge state company won't distribute petrol as efficiently as private firms. But the government has promised an improved service with regular deliveries to the most remote corners of Venezuela. It has also said the measure will help stop the illegal smuggling of the country's very cheap fuel across the border to Colombia and Brazil. The move is part of a wider policy that has seen most key sectors of the economy pass into the state's hands.

It is one of the controversial pledges of President Chavez, who has promised that the government can benefit the nation if it runs more of the country's businesses itself.

Source: BBC NEWS

Foreign office officials have told the Agencia Jud?a de Noticias that Israel is "very worried" by the influence of lebanese militia in Venezuela. Last week, an article published in the LA Times noted that Venezuela was a safehaven for the Islamic terrorism of Hezbollah. The article went on to claim that the group may have an operations center in Venezuela, invoking an immediate reaction from the Venezuelan jewish community.

The President of la Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas de Venezuela, Abraham Levy Benshimol, said that the possibility of a Hezbollah presence in his country was "worrying". "Clearly this worries us considerably", stressed a highly-placed source in the Israeli foreign office. The article also warned of a strengthening link between Chavez and the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Since the publication of the article in the LA Times, the Israeli foreign office has remained silent, but today, unofficially, accepted that the accuracy of its contents is 'reasonably certain'. Furthermore, the article confirmed that two Venezuelans with Arab surnames had bank accounts in numerous countries, from which they financed terrorist groups. Because of this, the US Treasury has frozen their accounts.

Source:noticias24.com