It's unfortunate, but predictable that Clinton would take this public stance. I am copying here a post I put on another item on this topic so apologies if folks have read it already. Clinton's statement only further bears out what Fidel Castro called
the OAS: a colonial ministry.
Thanks for posting her statement.
It is always best to consider things in context. Venezuela did not lose anything at the OAS meeting. If anything, a resolution stating that Colombia violated Ecuador's sovereignty suggests that if Colombia tries something similar in Venezuela it would be deemed a violation of sovereignty as well. No one expected the OAS to "condemn" Colombia because it is a client state of the US and the US controls the OAS almost as much as it controls the UN Security Council.
The US is the missing piece of context in this discussion.
Now, why would Venezuela send troops to its border? A thousand reasons, but here are a few. The US takes its jabs at Venezuela through Colombia (and the threat of a US-armed military force) and has been doing so for a very long time. Plus, the US has operatives crawling all over Colombia under various covers and fronts such as: contractors, diplomats, NGO workers, and missionaries. So a cross-border attack by Colombia into Venezuela could escalate rapidly into confrontation with the US. All Colombia would have to do, under direction of the US, is engineer some incident between a couple of American "missionaries" and Venezuelan military. Wilder schemes have been used --don't forget the US invasion of Grenada based on protecting US students who said they didn't need protecting.
I also think that Venezuelan intelligence services have plenty of information about a variety of US-Colombian traps and schemes in the works. Don't forget that Venezuela gets a lot of help on intelligence from one of the best in the world – Cuba. I'm sure Fidel can testify to this.
Finally, the Venezuela-Colombia border is three quarters the length of the US-Mexico frontier, making it one of the longest common borders in the hemisphere. Chavez would be endangering the people of Venezuela if he did not secure this border given the long history of US-Colombian provocation.
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