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Caribbean-Latin America
Chavez says US sending militia to border areas
2008-02-12
President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Sunday of sending Colombian right-wing paramilitary forces into Venezuela to destabilize border areas and arm shantytown gangs in the capital Caracas. With his most concrete charge to date in a months-old diplomatic dispute with Colombia, Chavez said the US ally supported the campaign that also included selling cocaine to buy support in slums. The anti-US, leftist president often charges Washington with plotting his ouster. He rarely provides any evidence for the accusations, which the United States routinely denies. “They (paramilitaries) are working in shantytowns selling cocaine below market prices to win over crime gangs and arm them with military arms,” Chavez said on his weekly TV show. He vowed to take to international bodies his charge that the two nations are “filling Venezuela with paramilitaries.”
Posted by:Fred

#5  paranoia,did they not offr too sell him any of the cheap stuff
Posted by: sinse   2008-02-12 10:32  

#4  Hell, Chavez. We don't need to do anything like that. Seal Team 6 would be enough to blow your stupid and rusting oil infrastructure to hell and then all we have to do is point and laugh and you are finished.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-02-12 07:36  

#3  No Hugo, the Hague Convention covers this when you provide safe haven for a belligerent in a conflict. "a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction."- Hague Convention of 1907.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-02-12 07:20  

#2  Hes finding busy work for the military. Idle hands and all that.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2008-02-12 07:19  

#1  Perhaps his buddies in FARC/Drug Gangs are starting to make him nervous (ie, scare) him.
Posted by: Throger Thains8048   2008-02-12 00:51  

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