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  • Peru proposes a South American peace force to contain regional conflicts 24 Nov 2009 22:11 GMT
    ... of the Union of South American Nations Defence Council, announced Peruvian Production minister Mercedes Araoz ... peace force made up with officers and troops from all countries”.- This “peace force” would ... organized a network of espionage inside its Armed Forces. Peru also claims the region has being ...

  • US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America 22 Nov 2009 10:52 GMT
    ... Washington, November 22: The United States is massively ... bases agreement could mean the possibility of war with Colombia. In August, President Evo Morales ... constitution. The immunities being granted to US soldiers are, the council adds, against the 1961 ...

  • War threat rises between Venezuela and Colombia 16 Nov 2009 09:11 GMT
    ... the weekend after both countries deployed more troops along their border and President Hugo Chavez ... after the Colombian military arrested four Venezuelan soldiers, just days after Mr Chavez told his army to "prepare for war" with Colombia. The ...

  • Colombia/Ecuador re-establish trade relations after 21 months 24 Nov 2009 21:10 GMT
    ... by Quito when on March 2008 Colombian troops bombed and raided a FARC camp on ... some 26 people including Raul Reyes, his armed guardsmen and several visiting foreign students and ... high command and a hundred or so soldiers. Ecuador and Colombia share a frontier extending ...

  • Brazil, Argentina reiterate concern with "extra-regional" military bases in South America 19 Nov 2009 02:32 GMT
    ... a "military base of extra-regional power in South America," which they consider as an "incompatible situation ... and the United States that allows American troops to use bases in Colombia, supposedly to ... challenges that arise in the fields of defense and security." "They stressed the importance that UNASUL ...

  • Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary chief 21 Nov 2009 20:53 GMT
    ... Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors. Magaly Janeth Moreno Vega was captured ... Chavez warned his nation to "prepare for war," while Colombia ratcheted up the unease on Friday when ... bases. Tensions also spiked Thursday when Venezuelan troops blew up two footbridges across the Venezuela-Colombia ...

  • Venezuela captures Colombian fugitive wanted for links to rightist militias 22 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
    ... Venezuela captures Colombian fugitive wanted for links to ... held an important role for the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, and also had links to ... have grown over an agreement granting U.S. troops expanded access to Colombian military bases. Hundreds of ...

  • Venezuela arrests Colombian fugitive 22 Nov 2009 01:51 GMT
    ... November 21, 2009 | 7:45 PM ET Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian official ... held an important role for the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, and also had links to ... have grown over an agreement granting U.S. troops expanded access to Colombian military bases. ...

  • Venezuela captures Colombian fugitive 22 Nov 2009 01:17 GMT
    ... CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities have captured a ... held an important role for the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, and also had links to ... have grown over an agreement granting U.S. troops expanded access to Colombian military bases. Hundreds ...

  • Venezuela and Colombia: Jaw-jaw war 16 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... during his weekly television show that Venezuela’s army should “prepare for war”, apparently with Colombia, ... Chávez ordered the deployment of 15,000 national-guard troops to border areas. It is not clear how ... numbers of troops quickly. In any conventional war, Colombia’s army would surely win. It has ...

  • Rebels say U.S. spying on Venezuela from Colombian base 21 Nov 2009 01:47 GMT
    ... Bogota, Nov 20, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) -- ... established an "underground base" at a Colombian army battalion headquarters in the northeastern province of ... about half the size of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC. ...

  • Colombia, Ecuador resume contact on border security 20 Nov 2009 03:13 GMT
    ... after both sides cut off ties. Colombian Defence Minister Gabriel Silva, his Ecuadorian counterpart Javier ... territory in an operation against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Tensions flared up as both ... flared up as both sides sent more troops to the border area subsequently and intermittent ...

  • Colombia holds major export event in Miami 17 Nov 2009 15:33 GMT
    ... his military to prepare for a possible war with his neighbor. The push for diplomacy ... and power blackouts. Chavez has warned that troops he ordered to the Colombian border should ... armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States ...

  • COLOMBIA: All For Show 19 Nov 2009 10:41 GMT
    ... some 200 FARC fighters attacked a small army post, killing nine soldiers before being driven off (losing about 30 ... Colombia) campaign, has ordered an additional 15,000 troops to the Colombian border. This is not ...

  • Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America 19 Nov 2009 06:59 GMT
    ... coasts of Somalia and Lebanon, and deploying troops and conducting war games in most parts ... witnessed. Bogota reported that nine of its soldiers were killed and four wounded in a ... The severing of relations occurred after Colombia's army launched an attack inside Ecuador. Ecuador and ...


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