Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday charged that Colombian troops had entered Venezuela across the Orinoco River, a move he warned was a "provocation" by his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe.
"We are not talking about a patrol with a few soldiers that strayed over a border" into Venezuela, he said.
"These troops crossed the Orinoco River in a boat and carried out an incursion into Venezuelan territory," Chavez said on his weekly television show "Hello President."
"When our troops got there (the Colombian troops) had already gone away," said Chavez, a leftist thug populist who has very strained ties with the conservative Uribe, the United States' closest regional ally. |