Venezuela threatens war over US base plans in Colombia

Cid_Yama

President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned Colombia not to allow a U.S. military base on its border with Venezuela, saying he would consider such an act an "aggression."

Chavez said he would not permit Colombia's U.S.-backed government to establish an American military base in La Guajira, a region spanning northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.

The Venezuelan leader said if Colombia allows the base, his government will revive a decades-old territorial conflict and stake a claim to the entire region.

"We will not allow the Colombian government to give La Guajira to the empire," Chavez said, referring to the U.S. during a speech to a packed auditorium of uniformed soldiers. "Colombia is launching a threat of war at us."

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waegari

Chavez is a big mouth.

Check this nonsense:

Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

Chavez is playing intq the hands of the Empire.

I don't think it matters either way, really, but he's making it easy.
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pana_burda

BINGO!!

pana_burda

........ and with its VERY financing!!

dissident · Heavy Crude Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 426

America wants another base to oversee the dope trade. Just like Bondsteel in Kosovo, the sex-slave and heroin hub of Europe. Chavez is threatening the flow of "spice".

dbruning

pana_burda

Cashmere:

DomusAlbion

Chavez is a blow-hard and he's really asking to get it nice and hard.
He is extremely imprudent and impolitic and because of this he is doomed.
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Nickel

DomusAlbion

Nickel,

Yep, all that stuff. I think he's a marked man. Just like Saddam was and is no more. The Empire will have to make an example of Chavez to keep the rest of South America in line. Just the harsh reality of our world.

Besides, he's a total jerk and is pissing off more and more countries.
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"Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett

"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock

Nickel

pana_burda

Emmmm ...... why not thinking instead how quickly they got rid of Noriega the very momment he turned his back to his north american handlers, on panamian drug deals???

Denny

Personally, I'd like to see George Bush and Hugo Chavez locked up together as cell mates. Fitting punishment for both of them. And, with a live feed of the rants and surreal posturing carried on You Tube.

And, a weekly TV show of the highlights. Let's call it "Who's the biggest dufus?" Every week, a phone in number could be used to select the dufus of the week.

Nickel