Venezuela, Spain sign deal on military boats

Venezuela, Spain sign deal on military boats

Friday, May 26, 2006 Posted: 1311 GMT (2111 HKT)

PUERTO REAL, Spain (AP) -- Spain will start building eight military patrol boats for Venezuela under a long-awaited deal that was signed Friday and has angered the United States.

The vessels are part of a $ 2 billion military hardware package that also includes 10 transport planes.

The building of the boats, first agreed on in November, got the final go-ahead in a signing ceremony that brought together the commander of Venezuela's navy, Armando Laguna, and the president of Spanish state-owned military shipyard Navantia, Juan Pedro Gomez Jaen.

The ships will be built in the southern port city of Puerto Real, and delivery is scheduled to be completed in 2011, officials said. Four are ocean patrol boats, and the others are for coast guard duties, Venezuelan officials say.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/26/venezuela.spain.ap/

And it's not to prop up a monoculture either.

He's hell bent on destroying the US! :sarcasm:

No either/or for these posters. That's too restrictive.

those 'visitors' recently. Re: Chavez, well I think they missed a few. There's always a 'Marxist', and 'Leninist', oh and let's not forget 'Nazi'. I'm surprised they forgot those.

Until proven otherwise, Hugo Chavez is and always will be my hero.

Maoist...Stalinist and the brand new..."Fidelista"....!!