Source: Mail and Guardian Online
Title: Chávez
accuses Colombia of war crimes
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez accused his Colombian
counterpart of war crimes as Venezuela and Ecuador turned up the
heat on Bogotá over its military strike on an insurgent
camp inside Ecuador.
"A war crime occurred there," Chávez charged
late on Wednesday at a joint press conference with Ecuadorian
counterpart Rafael Correa in Caracas, where the two men discussed
the crisis.
"We also want peace, but we cannot accept under any pretext
that the Colombian government uses Ecuadorian territory to implant
imperialist doctrines," added Chávez in reference
to Colombia's ally, the United States. [read
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Source: Mail & Guardian
Title:
Venezuela mobilises forces to Colombia border
Url: http://www.mg.co.za/articleList.aspx?area=south_america
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Venezuela deployed tanks and its air and sea forces toward the
Colombian border in its first major military mobilisation in a
crisis with Colombia, the country's defence minister said on Wednesday.
The move escalates tensions in a dispute over a Colombian weekend
raid inside another of its neighbours, Ecuador, to kill rebels
in an operation that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez says
could spark a war in the Andean region.
While Ecuador and Venezuela had poured soldiers toward their
borders with Colombia in recent days, there had previously been
no sign of a noticeable movement of heavy firepower [read
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