Posted: 1/17/2007 12:34:35 PM EDT
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Wall Street Journal reports Chavez signed contract to build Kalashnikovs in his country. edited for spelling |
OK. How do you know? |
I uh... read it on the internet. 
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Can we give him Hesse? That will slow him down a bit. |
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Which sorce of money did he steel from to finance this factory? Citgo? Any of the utility companies he will steel next, or did he do so already? Taxes from anyone who has wealth? Money from selling porn on the internet? None of the above? All of the above? Some of the above? Bilster |
Mexico has their own Service Rifle: the FX-05 "Xicoatl" (Fire Snake)  |
looks quite Masada-ish to me 
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| The long range application here is the Drug Gangs will be armed and now out gun the few LEOs we have at the Southern Border. These weapons will be flooding into the US and we, the law abiding, will get the blame. This is win win for everybody else. Put your thinking cap on and look at how this will play out. Just not good. |
It's a G36 knock off licensed by HK |
Yep, HK supplied machinery and licensing to George's homeland. I mean Mexico. |
If that is the case the US should finance his endeaver, that way people will try to fight us with those "weapons"(expensive clubs) sooner rather than later |
Yeah, if anyone can build a non-working AK rifle, my money is on Century. |
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It's all part of Chavez's bigger plan. He wants to be the chief weapons supplier to marxist regimes/rebels/reconquistas to our hemisphere. Guaranteed, if you are anti-US, anti-democracy, he's going to supply you!! Assault weapons have always been a little bit harder to come by in central & south America. Not very hard, just not as easy as eastern Europe or Africa. Chavez wants to change that. Much like those African warlords, Chavez views the AK as a symbol of rebellion against so called aggression. |
Pretty much. He fancys himself heir to the throne of communism in this hemisphere when Castro kicks. Unlike Castro, he has the ultimate cash crop, oil, to sell. |
damn, didn't even think of it that way. Maybe that's why he's been keeping himself in the spotlight so much lately. |
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These aticles will complete the picture. From AxisofLogic.com World News Venezuela Buys 100,000 Russian AK-103 Rifles By Alex Kennedy May 18, 2005, 06:48 Venezuela agreed to buy 100,000 Russian rifles for $39 million, proceeding with arms purchases that the U.S. has said pose a threat to stability in the Western Hemisphere. Venezuela signed a contract to buy the AK-103 rifles for $386 each, Defense Minister Jorge Garcia said. Venezuela will receive 28,000 rifles in October and other shipments in December and March, he said. ``U.S. relations with Venezuela haven't been friendly lately and it seems there's not much the U.S. can do,'' said Benito Berber, an analyst with HSBC Securities Plc in New York. ``Each country needs the other.'' The rifles are part of a package of planned arms purchases from Russia that also includes a $120 million contract for military helicopters and aircraft, as Venezuela seeks to beef up security along its border with Colombia. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised ``issues of stability'' in criticizing the plan in Moscow last month. Chavez, 50, has accused the U.S. of backing plots to overthrow him, without offering any proof. At the same time, Venezuela, the world's fifth biggest oil exporter, is seeking to reduce its dependence on the U.S., which buys two-thirds of its crude output. ``We have made it very clear to the Russian government our concerns about certain arms sales in Latin America and Venezuela,'' Rice said on April 20. Inadequate Explanation? U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in March said Venezuela wasn't giving an adequate explanation of the purpose for the weapons. ``I can't imagine what's going to happen to 100,000 AK- 47s,'' Rumsfeld said March 23 in Brasilia. ``I can't imagine why Venezuela needs 100,000 AK-47s. I personally hope it doesn't happen and I can't imagine that if it did happen this would be good for the hemisphere.'' The arms are intended to improve security along the Colombian border where kidnappings and armed incursions by Colombian irregulars are common, Venezuela's Communications and Information Ministry said last month. ``We're breaking paradigms,'' Garcia said in a televised speech today. ``This was done with transparency and honesty.'' Venezuela's armed forces have about 80,000 soldiers, not including a reserve force, which President Hugo Chavez said last month he plans to expand to 200,000 soldiers during the next few years. end article Here is number two. Kalashnikov factory stirs fears that Venezuela could export arms By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER The Associated Press PREV 1 of 2 NEXT MARCELO GARCIA / AP In a photo released by Venezuela's Miraflores Press, President Hugo Chávez handles a Russian AK-103 rifle, and Defense Minister Orlando Maniglia watches, during a ceremony last week at Fort Tiuna in Caracas during which aging Belgian rifles were replaced with the new Russian models. CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez's plans to build the first Kalashnikov factory in South America are stirring fears that Venezuela could start arming leftist allies in the hemisphere with Russian assault rifles. Chavez denies such ambitions, saying his government bought 100,000 Russian-made AK-103 assault rifles and a license from Moscow to make Kalashnikovs — commonly known as AK-47s — and ammunition to bolster its defenses against "the most powerful empire in history" — the United States. Some political opponents and critics suspect Chávez, a former paratrooper, has other intentions, such as providing allies like Bolivia and Cuba with arms while forging an anti-Washington military alliance. "Our president has always had a warlike mentality, but now it appears this mentality is turning into a mission that could easily extend to other parts of Latin America," said William Ojeda, a presidential candidate who hopes to run against Chávez in the December election. Chávez has said "Venezuelan blood would run" if the United States tried to invade Cuba or Bolivia, though he has not said his government would provide those nations with weapons. The Bush administration also is concerned about Chávez's intentions. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday that Venezuela appeared to be in the midst of an "outsized military buildup for a country of that size and the nature of the threats" in the region. "They've already purchased 100,000 AK-103 assault rifles from Russia. So I'm not quite sure what else they might need a factory for," McCormack said. "It certainly raises serious questions about what their intentions are." The first 30,000 of those rifles have arrived in Venezuela, with the rest due by year's end. "If the president says he'll send Venezuelans to defend other Latin American nations, nobody should doubt that he's willing to send them weapons as part of his anti-imperialist vision," Ojeda said. Ojeda pointed out that Bolivia's new socialist president, Evo Morales, referred to Chávez as his "commander" during a recent ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the birth of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the revolutionary who was captured and executed in Bolivia 39 years ago. Chávez has provided a helicopter and pilots to Morales to ferry him around in the weeks ahead of a July vote for a constituent assembly that will rewrite Bolivia's constitution. Chávez vehemently denies that Venezuela's recent defense deals worth an estimated $2.7 billion constitute a military buildup or that he poses a threat to regional stability, as U.S. officials allege. His military advisers argue that Venezuela needs new rifles to replace outdated weapons such as Belgian-made FAL assault rifles — and to have enough guns for up to 2 million reservists. Gen. Alberto Muller, a Chávez adviser, said the Kalashnikov factory would be able to produce 20,000 to 30,000 rifles a year. Construction is expected to begin within four to five years, he said, but Chávez may want to build it sooner. The Kalashnikov is manufactured in more than a dozen countries, including Egypt and Poland. Imitations are also widely produced. It is used by the armed forces of more than 50 countries as well as militant groups from Afghanistan to Somalia. Muller said there are no plans to export guns because Venezuela will need all the rifles it produces. But defense analysts say corrupt officials in Venezuela's low-paid armed forces raise the possibility that weapons and ammunition could wind up in the wrong hands — a likely concern in neighboring Colombia, where leftist rebels have been battling the government for more than four decades. "Colombia will certainly be concerned about the ammunition factories to be built in Venezuela," said Anna Gilmour, a Latin American defense expert at the London-based Jane's Information Group. Unlike assault rifles, ammunition lacks serial numbers and is thus untraceable. Then there is the issue of Venezuelan civilian militias. "I understand the FALs are to be diverted to the new civilian militias, in which case they will be extremely hard to keep track of," and might be quickly resold in the country or abroad, Gilmour said. Military authorities have said strict controls, including serial numbers inscribed on each rifle, prevent them from being stolen or sold. Venezuela is also buying 15 Russian helicopters for $200 million, and Chávez said last week that his government would buy 24 Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets. end article Here is an article noting Venezuela to get two AK factories. Diario Las Americas Publicado el 08-05-2006 Venezuela, the Western Hemisphere’s Iran Upon his return to Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro’s ally, has made numerous statements about his trip of a couple of weeks to communist countries in different continents, emphasizing that he would set up missiles in his country with the excuse of defending it from a purported American aggression. Chávez bought military equipment in Russia to the tune of 3 billion dollars: 24 Sujoi 30 fighter planes, fifty-three armed helicopters Mig 17, and one hundred thousand Kalachnikov rifles (30,000 of which have already been delivered). Likewise, he reportedly made arrangement to build two factories in Venezuela for AK 47 rifles and their ammunition. Not much imagination is needed to realize that Venezuela is not a country that would normally need this additional military equipment. It should be taken into account that Hugo Chávez made a brief visit, but one exceptionally important, to Iran, expressing his friendship and even spirit of brotherhood to the leader of that country. Everyone knows that, today, Iran poses great danger for world peace. This bond of Venezuela with Iran is also a serious threat to the point that it is no exaggeration to say that Venezuela is becoming the Iran of the Western Hemisphere. Nowadays, Iran is a real threat for world peace and, in some cases, such as Lebanon it is not a threat but a reality, using Syria to help Hezbollah attack Israel. This interventionism on the part of Iran is a reality that not only does not worry Hugo Chávez but, rather, encourages him to imitate that government. The government of Venezuela is an ally of all the communist governments of the world and, in this hemisphere, a very special ally of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, which is the total opposite of Marti’s Cuba. These two weeks that Chávez has spent visiting countries that are enemies of liberty, of democracy and of international peace, confirm the fact that Venezuela, a nation respected for many reasons, a country that provided many heroes for the wars of independence in South America, is now a threat for the security of the Western Hemisphere. |