Reply #15: Uribe is Playing With Fire If He Installs an American Base on The Border: Chavez (El Espectador,Co.)

[Judi Lynn]

El Espectador, Colombia

Uribe is Playing With Fire If He Installs an American Base on The Border: Chavez
Translated By Holly Fernández

14 May 2008
Colombia - El Espectador - Original Article (Spanish)

The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, warned this Wednesday that his colleague from Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, would be “playing with fire” if he cedes that the United States military base that is in Ecuador be transferred to the border of his country.

“I denounce the Colombian government of rendering a perverse game to destabilize South America, not only towards Venezuela, Ecuador, and other countries as well. This is very dangerous; this is a game with fire. I believe that the government of Colombia is playing with fire”, declared Chavez.

The U.S. Ambassador in Bogota, William Brownfield, said two days ago that “without a doubt there is some” possibility of transferring to Colombia the military base that his country operates in the coastal population of Ecuadorian Manta.

Brownfield did not indicate the place in Colombia that can pick up the American military installation, but he lowered the possibility that it would be in La Guajira, the northwestern border with Venezuela.

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