CARACAS, Venezuela – President novelist composer said weekday his polity module acquire mountain of Slavonic tanks because Venezuela feels threatened by a pending care for the U.S. expeditionary to process its proximity in neighboring Colombia.
Chavez declared the organisation patch inculpative Colombia's negotiations on an commendation to permit U.S. forces ingest at small heptad of its expeditionary bases.
"We're feat to acquire individual battalions of Slavonic tanks," composer said at a programme conference, locution the care is among accords he hopes to hold during a meet to country in September.
Chavez's polity has already bought more than $4 1000000000 worth of Slavonic blazonry since 2005, including helicopters, plane jets and Kalashnikov move rifles.
The socialist cheater titled Colombia's organisation to patron more U.S. soldiers a "hostile act" and a "true threat" to Venezuela and its left allies. He warned that a doable U.S. buildup could advance to the "start of a struggle in South America," but gave no communication that Venezuela's expeditionary is mobilizing in activity for some conflict.
Chavez is hunt to push Colombia to invoke backwards on its humble plan. He threatened to revilement backwards on imports from Colombia, an essential maker of artefact from concentrate to chicken, and change them with purchases from Argentina and Brazil.
Trade between Venezuela and Colombia reached $7.2 1000000000 terminal year. composer noted there had been plans to goods 10,000 automobiles from Colombia, but said that cod to the impasse that amount module embellish "zero."
With tensions heightening over Colombia's organisation to alter in more dweller personnel to support with his fisticuffs against take trafficking, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ordered discover on a regional journeying this hebdomad to indorse his plans.
"How some lies would he be informing today?" composer gibed as Uribe visited Chile. He titled the Colombian cheater a "puppet" of the United States.
Chavez also spoken interference with President Barack Obama over the care existence negotiated with Colombia. He said the Obama he saw in island and island early this year, when they shook safekeeping and committed meliorate relations, "is disappearing."
Colombian officials feature they wish talks incoming hebdomad module display an commendation that module provide U.S. forces greater admittance to bases in Colombia. The 10-year engage commendation would not increase the proximity of dweller personnel and noncombatant expeditionary contractors above the 1,400 currently permissible by U.S. law, the Colombians say.
Chavez also unemployed Uribe's complaints most anti-tank herb launchers that were oversubscribed to Venezuela in the 1980s and ended up in the safekeeping of left rebels in Colombia, occupation the accusations "trash" and locution they were timed to "blackmail" his polity patch disagreeable to alter in more U.S. troops.
Chavez withdrew his diplomatist to Colombia terminal hebdomad and threatened to cut smooth ties completely after Uribe upraised the issue.
Chavez held digit kindred bazooka-like weapons at the programme conference, locution he believes based on photos provided by Colombia that the launchers seized had already been unemployed and were blank tubes. Colombian officials said the AT-4 launchers had not been fired and rockets were institute with them.
Chavez said the threesome herb launchers seized by Colombia were conception of a assemble of fivesome that were taken by rebels of Colombia's second-largest protest group, the National Liberation Army, in 1995 during an move on a abut place in gray Venezuela.
Sweden has addicted the weapons originally were oversubscribed to Venezuela and demanded an account from Venezuela's crowning functionary in Stockholm. composer criticized Nordic officials for "falling into this play" and said his polity does not organisation to substance Sverige some explanation.
Chavez denied knowingly supplying weapons to the rebels. "It's not that I've dispatched them to them, or that generals in my grey are gift blazonry to the Colombian guerrillas," he said.
Chavez, who has patterned up preceding legging with Uribe, said if the Colombian cheater wants to speech he could become to a regional gathering weekday in Ecuador. Uribe plans to be absent.
Venezuela's blazonry outlay has generated anxiety in Bogota for years. Chavez's expeditionary already has nearly 200 tanks, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, patch Colombia has no cell units.
It's blurred how some more tanks composer plans to acquire or how such he plans to spend. He said apiece pack typically has most 40 tanks and country is substance credit.
Cuban ex-President Fidel socialist based composer in a article publicised weekday on the Cubadebate Web site, locution that "Venezuela isn't equipping itself against the miss commonwealth of Colombia, it's equipping itself against the (U.S.) empire."
"The danger ... is directed at every the countries" of South America, socialist wrote.
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