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| Chavez claims Colombian troops entered Venezuela |
| 2009-08-10 |
| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday charged that Colombian troops had entered Venezuela across the Orinoco River, a move he warned was a "provocation" by his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe. "We are not talking about a patrol with a few soldiers that strayed over a border" into Venezuela, he said. "These troops crossed the Orinoco River in a boat and carried out an incursion into Venezuelan territory," Chavez said on his weekly television show "Hello President." "When our troops got there (the Colombian troops) had already gone away," said Chavez, a leftist |
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| #7 I think the Russians are putting him up to this as payback for Georgia. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2009-08-10 16:50 |
| #6 Chavez has 7 of his generals running 7 of 10 of venezoos top companies. these promotions as such could be seen as payment for supporting his other stuff. Rhetoric not withstanding chavez himself would need to lead the troops into battle....unless there are recall provisions built into the newly minted CEO's contracts. Columbians should know, and act accordingly. chavez also threatened columbia with imminent market prices for OIL...yada yada yada, but wait, theres more; Columbia is Venezuelas chief supplier of critical food stuffs, and even process the coffee grown in venezuela, then repatriates after packaging, back to venezuela as high priced brands. chavez is mr inefficiency...makes generals ceos, make public beurocrats engineers and leaders of technical projects, pays large bucks for russian weapons to defend against the threat of rhetoric, that may be percolating along a border near him soon. And despite all this, the man is practicing to go for the record of longest speech ever made in Latin America, practicing hours every day to secretly wipe out fidels old record. |
| Posted by: Grerelet Bucket6078 2009-08-10 14:42 |
| #5 I see this as a way for Hugo to give his Good Buddy Obama an excuse to cut our on support for Columbia. Look for more of these 'claims' by Hugo and company against Columbia as Obama gets shriller and shriller in telling Columbia to stop doing what they are not doing in the first place and, as, reluctantly cutting our support. Never let a crisis go to waste - even if you have to create the crisis to begin with. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-08-10 14:10 |
| #4 At night the US would stealth bomb everything to bits and "blame" the Columbians. Then tidy up with a spooky. At any time prior to 1/20/09 I would have belived that possible but I now find it unlikely that the US would respond in such a manner any earlier than 1/20/13. Likely as not the present Administration in the US would back Chavez. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2009-08-10 12:10 |
| #3 Chavez would be a fool (and he is) to cross the border with any armor. At night the US would stealth bomb everything to bits and "blame" the Columbians. Then tidy up with a spooky. No-one in the army would obey the order. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-08-10 11:28 |
| #2 "The Chinese cut our rail line." - Japan, 1931 And so it begins. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-08-10 10:27 |
| #1 TOPIX > CHAVEZ TELLS ARMED FORCES TO PREPARE FOR WAR; + CHAVEZ: BORDER INCIDENT WITH COLUMBIA AN "ACT OF WAR". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-08-10 03:07 |