Thread: Chavez's $15 Billion Weapons Purchase Concerns Latin America

Hugo Chavez's $15 billion weapons purchase concerns Latin America.

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011

By Antonio Maria Delgado | The Miami Herald.

With the acquisition of hundreds of tanks, helicopters and bulletproof vehicles as well as submarines and missile networks, Venezuela is arming itself at a speed unprecedented in the history of the South American country.

Experts consulted by El Nuevo Herald have said that Hugo Chávez’s has created unrest in the region with purchases to expand its military that total more than $15 billion.

The analysts warned that the purchases are made in an improvised fashion, following a “dubiousâ€

Some analysts said that the purchases made so far add up to about $30 billion, a figure Chávez himself has said he wishes to spend to modernize the country’s armed forces.

Hmm, something sounds a little fishy about that activity?