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Hugo Chavez was the most emotional speaker. He said that the provision of seven bases for the US troops would help the USA commit intervention in order to seize the Venezuelan oil fields. The president indicated that the Colombian authorities have already attempted provocations. Chavez announced that he had denounced the energy agreement with the neighbouring country.
Originally posted by ziggy1706
Bull! The only reason the us military is on columbia, is to help and ensure cocoaine makes it too our streets, so more people get hooked n messed up. Theirs a documentary on hbo time to time, about how the CIA smuggles coc aine in. A plice detective for LAPD stepped forward, and told the names of 3 operations... AMADAUES< watchtower, and i forget the other one. Everyone knows coc aine msotly is form columbia. SO! IF our troops are over in afghanistan overseeing the harvest of opium, ide imagine the same in columbia
Originally posted by ZindoDoone
This is Chavez spouting off because we just gave a George Soros backed company 20 billion dollars to boost Brazil's oil exports and drill off shore. It's going to cut into Chavez's play money so he's trying to stir up the MSM against the US as usual! When the money runs out and we stop handing it out like water then we'll see just where it is they come running for help. Bash the US all you want but it's usually us that pays the bills!
Zindo
Originally posted by ZindoDoone
... so he's trying to stir up the MSM against the US as usual!
When the money runs out and we stop handing it out like water then we'll see just where it is they come running for help. Bash the US all you want but it's usually us that pays the bills!
Brazil asks US for meeting on Colombia bases
Brazil has asked the United States to meet with South American nations to discuss regional unease over a new deal giving the US military access to bases in Colombia, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Friday.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the request to US President Barack Obama in a half-hour telephone conversation early Friday, he said.
Lula reiterated Brazil's concerns over the United States being given access to seven bases in Colombia under a recently negotiated deal, and told Obama he wanted guarantees the US military would limit its actions there to Colombian territory.
Two anti-US neighbors of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, have expressed fears that the bases might be used to stage an invasion of their countries.
Clinton told reporters in Washington after meeting Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez on Tuesday that the deal was purely a bilateral matter focused on confronting "narco-traffickers, terrorists, and other illegal armed groups in Colombia."
She also stressed that there would be no permanent increase in US troop levels in Colombia, where 800 US soldiers and 600 US contractors are already based.