Mark Kirk: “problems now loom in Latin America as they did in the 1980s. Venezuela's Mussolini, Hugo Chavez, ordered 40 Russian…”

“problems now loom in Latin America as they did in the 1980s. Venezuela's Mussolini, Hugo Chavez, ordered 40 Russian military helicopters to station on his border with Colombia. And he is also taking delivery of over 100,000 AK-103 assault rifles to fight a new war. His war may be in Central America. His agents are already funneling oil money to groups hostile to the United States and to free trade. We in the Congress have a choice to make. We can either send exports to Central America or troops. Next week let us enact a free trade agreement with Central America to lock in democratic growth and stability, and let us make sure that President Hugo Chavez's Venezuelan agents find no fertile ground in America's back yard. ____________________”