  Now you've learned something, good.  By cocaine cowboys, do you mean Chavez's FARC lackeys?   I honestly don't know a whole lot about the politics of South America. All I know is whether Chavez is Socialist or Commie or what have you, he seems to be quite a Nationalist. He has been discouraging radio stations from playing American music and American tv shows/movies, encouraging more Venezuelan made movies, music, and tv shows. Standing up to the MTV/mcdonalds/coca cola corporate cultural imperialism, so that is good. He does not seem to be friendly with ZOG at all, so that is good. As for Columbia all I need to know about them is that the cocaine cartels have the run of that place, and those cartels are scum. So based on my rather limited knowledge of the region in the event of war between Venezuela and Columbia I believe I would root for the Venezuelans. As for FARC...I am familiar with them, vaguely, they have been in the news enough recently. But I really don't know enough about FARC or their connection with Chavez to really form an opinion on that matter at this time.