Scandalous Absence Of Any Evidence Justifying U.S.Charge

While many in Washington were still choking on the sulfurous fog seeping down from New York, the White House's extraordinarily inappropriate report condemning Venezuela for failing "demonstrably" to meet international counter-narcotics agreements quietly slipped past the attention of the media, as well as the general public.The drug report, an alarmingly tendentious document relying on misleading evidence and innuendo, is little more than a deeply politicized anti-Hugo Chavez treatise than a professional inventory of Venezuelan drug policy.In other words, it is little better than a bogus indictment of a country where anti-drug performance falls well within the middle range of Latin American nations.

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