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| Venezuela troops at Colombian border | |
| 2010-08-01 | |
| The Venezuelan government has deployed troops on the border with neighboring Colombia after the two side severed bilateral ties. "We've deployed military units, air force, infantry, but quietly because we don't want to upset anybody, the population," President Hugo Chavez told state-run VTV television in a telephone interview on Saturday, AFP reported.
"[Colombian President Alvaro] Uribe is capable of anything in his last days" before he leaves office on August 7, said Chavez. "This has become a threat of war and we don't want war," he added. Caracas severed diplomatic ties with Bogota on July 22, one week after Uribe accused Venezuela of sheltering 1,500 leftist Colombian rebels on it soil -- a charge Chavez has strongly denied. Chavez has also threatened to cut off oil shipments to the United States if it backed an attack by Colombia, its chief ally in the region. Colombia has rejected a peace plan offered by Venezuela to end the dispute over allegations that Venezuela is sheltering leftist guerrillas. Uribe has said that his government will offer its own peace plan to address the issue. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Pull my finger. If chavez tries anything Colombia, go in there and kill him and withdrawl. 3 days max. you know how to do it. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-08-01 18:10 |
| #4 If I were Columbia I would taunt tHugo militarily, making him tie up resources move troops and equipment here and there,in order to respond to 'attacks' that never come. Make him spend more money and exhaust his troops keeping them on high alert for weeks, even months. Sooner or later the Venezuelan people will tire of tHugo and he will be overthrown like all dictators eventually do. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-08-01 17:15 |
| #3 This week we should see the dollar drop again. They want more for their oil so the prick of war will drive prices up or the dollar will. This is the same tactic employed in the Arab world why not here. Hugo is desperate. He has to divert attention from the many problems his country has. |
| Posted by: Dale 2010-08-01 16:24 |
| #2 Talks! Talks! Let's have some talks. Of course, we will need to have talks to set up the talks. And, before that, have talks to determine where the talks to set up talks will occur. Oh, and before that, we need to hire some more Ivy League graduate and train them to prepare for the talks about talks about talks. Our foreign policy is clearly better than it has ever been. |
| Posted by: Highlander 2010-08-01 09:23 |
| #1 Obama, I know he's your political bud but... can't you at the least place a cartel hit order? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-08-01 00:39 |