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Ein paar saure Pillen für Chavez, natürlich mit Grüßen aus Washington:

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Saab Story: No More Arms Sales to Venezuela

A BBC report notes that the Saab Group will no longer sell weapons to Venezuela as of October 1, 2006. This is being done in compliance with American restrictions on the transfer of weapons to Venezuela that contain components made in the US... and implicitly, by companies that wish to continue to sell to the US military.
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Love on the Rocks II: The Divorce is Official

In our 2006 Valentine's Day article "Love on the Rocks: CASA's $600M Venezuelan Plane Sale In Heavy Turbulence," DID discussed the blockage of a EUR 500 million sale from Spain to Venezuela under the USA's ITAR regulations on military technology transfer. Despite the protests of the Spanish government, which claimed that the planes were not potential offensive weapons, the US held firm in its insistence that no ITAR-qualifying technologies could be part of the order for 10 EADS-CASA C-295 light transports, and 2 CN-235MP advanced maritime patrol aircraft. ...