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Chavez orders troops to Colombian border--WAR????
Venezuelan leader warns neighbor’s action against rebels could lead to war
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered thousands of troops to the border with Colombia after Colombia's military killed a top rebel leader. Chavez told his defense minister: "Move 10 battalions for me to the border with Colombia, immediately." He also ordered the Venezuelan Embassy in Colombia closed and said all embassy personnel would be withdrawn. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23435878 |
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“The Colombian government has become the Israel of Latin America,”
has this do-do ever received a psyche consult? He is off his rocker. |
Colombia: Chavez, rebels in 'armed alliance'
$300 million Venezuelan payoff to rebels alleged BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia’s police chief on Monday said documents found on a slain rebel’s laptop computer suggest Venezuela recently paid $300 million to Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, perhaps in exchange for the release of six hostages...... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23435878/ Crisis at Colombia Border Spills Into Diplomatic Realm CARACAS, Venezuela — The three-way crisis in the Andes escalated Monday as Ecuador broke off diplomatic relations with Colombia, and Venezuela expelled Colombia’s ambassador and other diplomats. The three countries swapped charges of treachery and deceit, ratcheting up tension in a dispute that began when Colombian forces hunted down and killed a Colombian guerrilla leader on Ecuadorean soil over the weekend..... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/wo...rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.reuters.com/article/world...Name=worldNews |
I loved it a few months ago when the King of Spain told Chavez to shut up. It was all over the news.
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Bush backs Colombia over Venezuela "provocation"
By Patrick Markey BOGOTA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush backed Colombia on Tuesday in an escalating Andean crisis as Venezuela moved troops to its border and Colombia accused President Hugo Chavez of genocide for sponsoring rebels. Chavez, who calls Bush "Mr. Danger," has warned war could break out after Colombia bombed inside another neighbor, Ecuador, to kill a leading leftist FARC guerrilla.......... http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...edName=topNews Ecuador to defend itself if no Colombia apology BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Rafael Correa said on Tuesday that Ecuador would defend itself if Colombia did not apologize for an attack on rebels in its country and if the international community did not condemn it. "The aggressor has to apologize and the international community condemn him. If not we will have to defend ourselves with our own means," Correa told journalists in the capital Brasilia...... http://www.reuters.com/article/world...Name=worldNews Fidel Castro wades into South American fray HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban President Fidel Castro waded into the growing dispute between Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday, backing Ecuador but aiming his fire mainly at arch-enemy the United States..... http://www.reuters.com/article/world...45185320080304 Colombia says FARC wanted to make radioactive bomb GENEVA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Tuesday that FARC rebels had been planning to make a "dirty bomb" with radioactive material, threatening the entire Latin American region. The charges by Vice-President Francisco Santos, at the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, marked a dramatic turn in a regional crisis that has seen Venezuela and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Colombia...... http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...27449820080304 Colombia a Flashpoint in Chávez Feud With U.S. CARACAS, Venezuela — In the four days since Colombian forces crossed into Ecuador and killed a guerrilla leader taking refuge there, tensions between Colombia — Washington’s top regional ally — and its leftist neighbors have erupted, highlighting the fact that Colombia and its policies are increasingly viewed here as American proxies..... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/wo...rssnyt&emc=rss Venezuelan troops to Colombian border CUCUTA, Colombia - Venezuela and Ecuador reinforced their borders with Colombia on Tuesday as the three nations traded increasingly bitter accusations over Colombia's cross-border strike on a leftist guerrilla base in Ecuador. Rejecting a Colombian apology as insufficient, Ecuador sought international condemnation of the attack during an emergency meeting of the Organization of American States, convened in Washington to help defuse one of South America's most volatile crises in years. Venezuela's justice minister declared that war "has already begun."..... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23466312/ Colombian rebels find haven in Venezuela EL CRUCE, Venezuela - Leftist rebels fighting Colombia's U.S.-backed military have increasingly found refuge in Venezuela, where they get weapons, food, medical treatment and a smuggling route for the cocaine that keeps them afloat. Former rebels, local citizens and Colombian officials told The Associated Press that hundreds or even thousands of Colombian insurgents are in Venezuela at any given time... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23337587/ |
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