Financial Times UK: Colombia has said it will appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Organization of American States after Hugo Chavez, the fiery leftist president of neighbouring Venezuela, ordered his army to prepare for war in order, he said, to assure peace. For months Mr Chavez has said that a military co-operation pact signed last month between Bogota and Washington could set the stage for a US invasion of Venezuela from Colombian territory. The US and Colombia dismiss...

The Bolivarian government of Venezuela expresses its rejection of the new aggression against the Venezuelan people who are the statements made the day 3 November by a government representative of the State of Israel. This is further proof of the rude attitude, that characterizes aggressive interventionist and representatives of the international right, and violence of campaigns that permanently deployed against peaceful people and governments such as Venezuela. No moral government of Israel...

The Colombian and Ecuadorean military are still cooperating in the fight against the FARC despite the diplomatic crisis between Bogota and Quito, Colombian military commander Freddy Padilla de Leon said Wednesday. The armed forces of Colombia and Ecuador are still communicating and working together "on different levels" despite the freezing of all diplomatic ties after Colombia bombed a FARC camp on Ecuadorean territory without warning the Ecuadorean authorities in March 2008, the...

QUITO - Venezuela plans to donate a fleet of combat planes to Ecuador, local media reported on Tuesday. TV Ecuavisa quoted Ecuadorian military sources as saying that Venezuela would donate Ecuador a fleet of Mirage-50 planes made in the 1970s, a kind of planes that the Ecuadorian Air Force also has. Ecuadorian authorities made no comments on the report, which came at a time when Ecuador is strengthening its military equipments for territorial defense, mainly at the border with Colombia. ...

La Paz: Bolivia has planned purchase of six Karakoram VIII planes from Pakistan while its government has allocated 57.8 million US dollars for the purpose, Geo news reported on Friday. Bolivia government made this decision following a long span of consultation within government officials and allocated $57.8 million. The Karakoram VIII planes were produced by Pak-China joint cooperation, which Bolivian government intends to use for anti-drugs operation while those planes could also offer...

The credit will be used to purchase nearly 100 tanks and a series of anti-aircraft rocket systems from Russia. In his weekly TV address, Mr Chavez said the weapons were intended to boost Venezuela's defensive capacity. The deal comes as tensions grow between Venezuela and Colombia over Bogota's plan to allow the US access to several military bases there. Colombia says the US forces will help in the war against drugs and left-wing guerrillas, and will not destabilise the region. Russian tour ...

"The system was blinking red." --The 9/11 Commission Report WASHINGTON -- New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau left his home turf and came to the nation's capital on Tuesday to sound the alarm about a "blossoming relationship" between Iran and Venezuela. Comparing the situation to the lead up to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Morgenthau warned of growing threats--involving missiles, nuclear ventures and terrorist training--that Iran and Venezuela are now...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday blasted accusations that his government supplied Colombian guerrillas with shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons and accused the neighboring country of blackmail. The remarks follow a freezing of diplomatic relations between the countries over the weapons issue and over negotiations that could lead to American military bases in Colombia. Colombia announced last week that three anti-tank weapons seized from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,...

President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would purchase dozens of Russian tanks, in a move signaling growing military ties between the two countries that have frequently clashed with Washington. "It will be a major arms agreement to increase our defense capability," the Venezuelan leader told reporters, noting that he hoped to ink other agreements on agriculture, oil and mining during his visit to Moscow in mid-September. Between 2005 and 2007, Moscow and Caracas signed 12 arms deals...

Bolivian officials treat information about the uranium deposits in San Ignacio and other locations in Bolivia as a state secret. Chief ministers reacted indignantly to recent claims by Israel that Iran was receiving uranium from Bolivia and Venezuela. "Bolivia is a peaceful nation that would never aid an effort by Iran or any other country to develop nuclear weapons," said Presidency Minister Juan Ramon Quintana. He called Israel's intelligence service "an agency of inept,...