Sorry INNflight
you are right..that was a stupid emotional statement on my part..
however it is unfortunately true for some of those countries, Venezuela included..
I am 100% sure that that crew of that Global was forced to take on that load under threat, and such druggangs are no jokers, so the crew in all certainty did have no options..other than sneaking out lowlevel and make the first stop logically in LPA ( and not Westafrica or wherever they should have flown that cargo to..)
and the question therefore still remains why that aircraft, and by whom, it had been booked to fly to Venezuela? That is the question that the authorities will have to find an answer to and that will solve the case..