There was a while not long ago when boats came from Venezuela were not bombed.
That was when the deceased Venezuelan strong man and populist Hugo Chavez allocated the shipping of millions of liters of a discount in the house to needy families in Boston and elsewhere.
It was a humanitarian and political movement by the charismatic Chavez aimed at providing cheap heating oil to families in need, homeless shelters. And poor families who have the federal energy tool for low income.
It was also an excavation at the then President George W. Bush after the peak in domestic oil prices after Hurricane Katrina. That deadly hurricane cost 1,833 lives.
The hurricane in August 2005 also disturbed the production of oil and stopped refineries in the Gulf of America. The costs of home heating oil shot up, especially in the winter northeast.
Do you still remember calling “Joe-4 oil”? “
That was then former American congress member Joe Kennedy II (not his son Joe Kennedy III, also a former congress member), established non-profit Citizens Energy Corporation to buy cutting speed from Chavez to distribute it to needy families in Massachusetts.
Needy families and humanitarian organizations were able to call the Kennedy organization to request oil delivery at a lowered pace or, sometimes, for nothing at all.
After the welcomed Venezuelan oil tankers arrived in Boston Kennedy, relocation often ran into a public relations with the heating of the heat oil and the oil itself supplied a needy family.
The original deal with Chavez was compiled with the help of the late American representative William Delahunt from Quincy who was able to create a working relationship with Chavez.
It was an era in which various politicians could talk to each other.
It was a good thing, but like all the good things it came to an end.
The end came when the popular socialist Chavez died of cancer 2013 at the age of 58.
He was succeeded by the unpopular socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro who, instead of sending oil to the US such as Chavez, sends medicines. He also shipped to the US thousands of prisoners of Venezuelan criminals he liberated.
Chavez may have been a thorn in the side of the US, but Maduro is an outright enemy and a criminal, a drug lord who leads the Kartel de Los -Soles, who is responsible for drug trafficking in the US to kill Americans.
It is also the reason why the US has an arrest statement of $ 50 million on its head.
Just when Trump stopped the border and stopped the illegal immigrant invasion of the country, he is also determined to close the drug trafficking on the border, as well as the cocaine and fentanyl who come from Maduro by sea.
And if there is any doubts about it, the drug traders only have to watch the videos of American naval forces who blow three drug boats that come from Venezuela from Venezuela.
If that is not enough for a warning for Maduro and other druglings, Trump could also send him film by President George HW Bush’s Invasion of Panama from 1989 to arrest drug trafficking General Manuel Noriega, the dictator, the dictator.
It was called Operation Just Cause and the 26,000 American combat troops included. The fights were over in three weeks. A hunted Noriega turned to American troops and Panamanian drug shipments to the US were limited and Panamanian democracy was restored.
Noriega was tried and convicted in an American court on accusation of racketeering, drug trafficking and money laundering.
He spent the rest of his life in prison and died in 2017.
When sinking the drug boats, Trump was asked if he had a message for Maduro.
Trump said, “Stop sending drugs to the United States.”
If I were Maduro, I would follow Trump’s advice.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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