Chavez Closes Venezuela's Embassy in Colombia; Orders Troops to Colombia Border

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/ameri ... index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334409,00.html

It would be funny if it werent...wait, its really funny

The dude is such an attention whore that its unbelievable.

we're all gonna die

die first asshole

i'm taking you with me.

but im going to join venezuela's army

Chavez is mental. His economy is collapsing, despite high oil prices, and he needs to distract his citizens from his administration's failings. Of course no current US president would ever use such a tactic.

Colombia did a real bad move
you dont bomb another territory without asking permission (unless youre American)

bad move and all....Chavez is a scumbag. The FARC are terrorists. And I had hopes for Correa to be different, now I see he is just another piece of shit.

There was some communication with Ecuador beforehand, correct? Ecuador and Venezuela see no problem with allowing FARC to operate within their boundaries, which seems like a bad move to me.

No i don't think they communicated with Ecuador, and that is why they were able to kill the terrorist.
Ecuador and Veneauela are PRO guerrilla, and they would not fight with the FARC at all.

Perhaps I misread the article. I don't think Columbia's move was at all unreasonable.

For those of us less versed on South American politics, could someone please link to a story about this prior attack involving the terrorist? Thanks.

Terrorists are using Ecuador and Venezuela to escape from Colombia’s military force. One of the people recently set free by FARC explained how he was kept in Ecuador for a few days and passed by a small military force in the borders without problems.

And again, Chavez is behind this. He is taking Fidel’s spot and supporting all sorts of scumbags on the region, providing money and natural resources to get support to his communist ideas.

While I don’t agree with another country attacking my land I think now Colombia is alone in his fight against terrorists in our region making it very difficult for them to successfully track and capture attackers that are able to easily escape to another country without problem.

Colombia: Evidence suggests Chavez gave FARC $300M

(CNN) -- Evidence found in computers seized in a raid over the weekend suggests that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently gave the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia $300 million, Colombia's national police chief said Monday.

Speaking at a news conference, Gen. Oscar Naranjo also said evidence in the computers suggests FARC had given Chavez 100 million pesos when he was a jailed rebel leader.

FARC has fought to overthrow the Colombian government for 40 years.

Chavez had no immediate response to the allegations involving him.

Naranjo said other evidence in the computers suggests FARC purchased 50 kilograms of uranium this month.

Meanwhile, Colombia said Monday it won't send troops to its southwest and northeast borders, where Venezuelan and Ecuadoran military forces were to be separately deployed after a Colombian raid into Ecuador. Video Watch what led to attack »

The Saturday raid, which Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said violated his nation's airspace, left two Colombian rebels dead.

Correa said he was "disposed to go to the ultimate consequences" in response to the raid, and Chavez said he firmly stands behind Ecuador.

Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe said his government "reiterates its affection and respect" for the neighboring countries, according to a statement on a government Web site.

Developments in the northern part of the continent have rapidly unfolded since Saturday, when the Colombian police and air force killed the FARC's second-in-command, Luis Edgar Devia Silva, aka Raul Reyes. The Colombian government described it as the most significant blow yet to the rebels.

Colombia says its police and military attacked the targets after its forces came under fire from FARC rebels about a mile inside Ecuador.

Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos denied Colombia had violated Ecuadoran airspace, but Correa and Chavez assailed the raid as an infringement of Ecuador's sovereignty.

Chavez ordered 10 battalions of troops to the Colombian border Sunday and closed Venezuela's embassy in Bogota. He said Venezuela would have declared war on Colombia if its troops had attacked targets in Venezuela.

Chavez called the attack "a cowardly murder" and blamed the United States, a close ally of Colombia. He further called Uribe a criminal, liar and gangster.

"We don't want war, but we will not allow the North American empire -- which is the master -- and its sub-President Uribe and the Colombian oligarchy to divide, to weaken us," he said. "We will not allow it."

In a televised address Sunday, Correa called the raid a "massacre" that killed numerous civilians.

Correa withdrew Ecuador's ambassador to Colombia, expelled Colombia's ambassador to Ecuador and ordered troops to the Colombian border. He said an apology alone from Colombia will not suffice.

"We demand signed and formal promises made before the international community that will guarantee that these unacceptable actions will not be repeated," Correa said.

The attack killed Reyes and Guillermo Enrique Torres, aka Julian Conrado, a key ideologue.

Correa said Saturday that Uribe told him the incident occurred as Colombian troops were pursuing a FARC column. He later said his troops learned that Colombian planes struck the rebels as they slept in a camp about a mile inside Ecuador.

Colombian ground forces then crossed into Ecuador and retrieved Reyes' body, leaving the others, he said.

"We will not permit this outrage," he said. "The situation is extremely grave, and the Ecuadoran government is disposed to go to the ultimate consequences."

Correa spoke Sunday with the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela "to share with them the gravity of the situation," he said.

Venezuela is Colombia's neighbor to the northeast, Ecuador to the southwest.

Correa and Chavez are two of several leftist presidents who have been elected in Latin America in recent years. Uribe is a rightist with close ties to the United States.

Chavez is an outspoken U.S. foe who relied on his leftist credentials to help secure the recent release of six FARC hostages. It is estimated the rebel group has about 750 hostages, many of whom have been held for years in harsh conditions in the South American jungle.

FARC justifies hostage-taking as a legitimate military tactic in a long-running civil war that includes right-wing paramilitaries, government forces and drug traffickers.

In Washington on Sunday, the White House said it was monitoring the situation.
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"This is an odd reaction by Venezuela to Colombia's efforts against the FARC, a terrorist organization that continues to hold Colombians, Americans and others hostage," spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

The United States, the European Union and Colombia consider FARC a terrorist organization.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/ ... index.html

arent Venezuela doing a China kind and controlling all the internet?

Someone's a bit too caught up in the US presidential election, eh?

I believe Invention's article has a typo, it should be "two columbian soldiers dead" rather than 'rebels'. 17 rebels were killed, including Raul Reyes, who acted as a spokesman of the group and was part of the secretariat.

now Brazil also said that Colombia was wrong

Is there any FARC activity in Brazil?

This is the only reference I have found so far:

In 1991, a small group of guerrillas invaded the Brazilian side of the jungle, and attacked an army post near the Traira River, in the first and only confirmed clash with the Brazilian army to date. Three soldiers were killed and some weapons stolen. A few days later a Brazilian commando struck back, killing seven guerrillas.