Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into a narcostate, openly posting people with backgrounds in the cocaine trade to high office, including the head of the Venezuelan military Even worse, there is evidence of collaboration with the drug lords of Mexico who threaten to turn our southern neighbor into a failed state. While most Americans are preoccupied with the threat from jihadists, a serious national security threat in our own hemisphere metastasizes.Investor's Business Daily provides the news that the rest of the American media ignores:Last week, Chavez promoted Major General Henry Rangel Silva to general-in-chief, the top position in the Venezuelan military command.It was a rogue act because, in 2008, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control named Rangel and two other Chavez loyalists as "Tier II Kingpins" for material support of drug trafficking.The U.S. designation came of an administrative process so strict and thorough the U.S. government could indict...(Read Full Post)