US Ambassador praises work of Venezuela's anti-Drugs Czaress

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic news Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

US Ambassador Charles Shapiro has met Executive Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and Anti-Drugs Czaress, Mildred Camero to discuss the eradication of poppy feels in Venezuela's western Perija mountain range (Zulia). 

Shapiro says Camero has brought him about cultivation in the area and he praised the judge's work in the  war on drugs. 

Camero reports that her office (Conacuid)  is undertaking intelligence work in the region to assess the situation in the poppy fields. 

Crop-dusting was discontinued last year due to Venezuela's political situation and government precaution to pre-empt any use of Venezuelan Air Force planes for coup attempts and other subversive activities. 

Camero insists that Conacuid had concerted the meeting with the US Ambassador to coordinate joint activities in the war on drugs in border areas.