The State Department's March 1997 Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations reported that Excess Defense Articles for Venezuela would be used "to assist the Venezuelan military to improve its drug interdiction efforts along its vast internal river network, support its model crop eradication program, safeguard its border with Colombia against drug cartels and guerrillas, as well as modernize its equipment."¹

The April 2002 FY2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations was more concise, indicating that EDA would be used "to promote interoperability and modernization of equipment."²

The February 2005 request for 2006 states, "Transfer of any grant EDA will be used to ultimately promote our long-standing interests in strengthening democracy." [7]

2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1996

2000:³
(all amounts in dollars)

1999:⁴
(all amounts in dollars)

1998:⁵
(all amounts in dollars)

1996:⁶
(all amounts in dollars)

Sources:

¹ United States, Department of State, Office of Resources, Plans and Policy, Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 1998 (Washington: March 1997): 431.

² United States, Department of State, FY 2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations (Washington, DC: Department of State, April 15, 2002) <http://www.state.gov/m/rm/rls/cbj/2003/>.

³ United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>.

⁴ United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>.

⁵ United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles Furnished Foreign Countries Under Section 516 of The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, As Amended (Washington: July 1999).

United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>.

⁶ United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, Foreign Military Assistance Act Report To Congress, Fiscal Year 1996 (Washington: September 1997).

United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>.

⁷ United States, Department of State, Office of Resources, Plans and Policy, Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 2006 (Washington: February 2005) <http://www.state.gov/m/rm/rls/cbj/2006/>.