A day after vowing to ease tensions with Colombia, on Monday President Hugo Chávez charged that his neighboring country recently allowed a US military aircraft to carry out "electronic warfare" operations against Venezuela. The Venezuelan ruler said that his intelligence services detected the US plane that, he said, took off from a Colombian base and flew along the border between the two South American countries, whose tense relations have worsened in recent months, AP...

Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe rejected on Thursday the installation of a bust of Manuel Marulanda, the late founder of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in a Venezuelan border town and asked people "to defeat terrorists wherever they are." "Colombians consider that rather than a tribute, this bust is a sign that our country has to defeat crime, terrorism and drug trafficking," Uribe told journalists. "I would say that people who try to pay...

Venezuela's President, Hugo Chávez, said on Monday that the statements made by the Colombian presidential candidate and former Minister of Defense, Juan Manuel Santos, were a "threat." The Venezuelan leader is concerned about further military actions in the region such as the Colombian military raid into Ecuador when Raúl Reyes, a leader of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was killed by the Colombian Army. Chávez made this statement...

Colombia's President Álvaro Uribe on Tuesday disavowed any aggressive statement against Venezuela, at a time when the relations between the two countries are going through the worst diplomatic crisis in recent history. Uribe's statements came a day after his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez presided over a military parade in a frontier zone in which he repeated his complaint that an attack on his country is being planned from Colombia, with the support of the United States....

President Hugo Chávez warned the Colombian government that it would regret an eventual aggression against Venezuela. He also said that Colombian "unmanned spy planes" have violated Venezuela's airspace and ordered his military to "shoot down" any such aircrafts. "A few days ago, at midnight, one of these unmanned aircrafts flew over the military garrison of Fuerte Mara (state of Zulia, western Venezuela); our soldiers saw it; they called the on-duty officer,...

The Spanish government wants to help "to ease tensions" between Caracas and Bogotá about the use of Colombian bases by US troops, said on Tuesday Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, the Secretary of State for Ibero-America. The government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero responded this way, the official said, to a request made by Colombia's President Álvaro Uribe. Spain is working to calm down tension between the two Latin American countries...

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 charge d'affaires in Tehran Argentina, Mario Enrique Quinteros criticized Western media for using the testimony of the anti-Iranian terrorist organization Mojahedin-e Khalq in the case of bomb attack in 1994 of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires. The Western and Israeli media claims that a number of Iranian officials are wanted by Interpol in connection with the AMIA, left 85 dead and injured more than other 300. Iran has denied the allegations and said Alberto Nisman, the...

The restoration of constitutional order in Honduras should be accompanied by the immediate repeal of repressive decrees issued by the de facto government, and a full investigation of abuses committed in the aftermath of the coup, Human Rights Watch said today. The de facto government of Honduras and the deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, announced today that that they had struck a deal on the evening of October 29, 2009, to restore Zelaya to office. The exact terms of the accord are unknown. ...