The CIA propaganda machine is spending a great deal of energy and resources in portraying Venezuela as a drug-trafficking nation. For eight years, From The Wilderness has been documenting the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering in this country and around the world. In this article, Peter Dale Scott, long-time friend of FTW and author of a number of books about U.S. government drug trafficking, de-constructs this piece of CIA propaganda. He notes that 41 tons of cocaine having been exported from Venezuela since 1998 does not of course prove guilt on Chavez' part. On the contrary, the CIA has worked in the past with drug traffickers to remove elected presidents, successfully in Chile, and unsuccessfully in Cuba.
