At VCrisis, Alek Boyd has firsthand info about how Hugo Chavez’s shiny new Russian weapons purchases are being used - to massacre Venezuelan and Brazilian peasants from helicopters in the deep jungle.

There was a great big massacre of miners in the Amazon rainforest this week and Boyd is on the scene with tons of photos and interviews with locals.

These are Hugo Chavez’s death squads up close. Death squads from the air, with the willing collaboration of Vladimir Putin.

Read the whole thing here.

Tags | Brazil, Eastern Europe, Human Rights, Russia, Venezuela