Chavez orders embassy shutdown
02/03/2008 20:14  - (SA)  

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Caracas - President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela's embassy in Colombia closed on Sunday and sent 10 battalions of troops to the countries' shared border after Colombia's military killed a top rebel leader.

Chavez told his defence minister: "Move 10 battalions for me to the border with Colombia, immediately." He ordered the Venezuelan Embassy in Bogota closed and said all embassy personnel would be withdrawn.

The announcements by Venezuela's leftist leader pushed relations to their tensest point of his nine-year presidency, and Chavez warned that Colombia could spark a war in South America.

He called the US-allied government in Bogota "a terrorist state" and labelled President Alvaro Uribe "a criminal".

 

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