Reply #86: Beacuse the data is right even if the analysis sucks [View All]

[MaryCeleste]

Chavez has been pouring serious money into his military. Pravda and Fox both support that (multiple sources with different agendas saying the same thing makes for believability). Much more than the budget number indicated.

The tabular data is derived from GlobalsSecurity.org, which is regarded as accurate by most people and is not a government shill. I can't get to the Janes data from home and GS data is almost as good in most cases and agree in this one. It may be Greek to you but the number matter. Also the article you quoted even said that there were purchases not counted in the Venezuelan budget. All this was to support that Venezuela has the largest military presence in the region. 30 front line jet fighters, 60 total and 100,000 AKs, modern light armor and APCs. Chavez has quite a military presence, and more importantly one that is for projecting power not just border protection.