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December 13, 2010

WikiLeaks: Colombia’s Uribe Discussed Invading Venezuela in 2008
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Another just-released Wiki Leaks U.S. diplomatic cable reveals former
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was ready to order troops to cross into
Venezuela and capture rebel leaders in 2008. According to one secret
cable, Uribe told U.S. Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, that he was "prepared to authorize Colombian forces to
cross into Venezuela, arrest FARC leaders, and bring them to justice in
Colombia." Less than two months after Uribe’s meeting with Mullen,
Colombia’s military attacked a FARC camp in Ecuador on March 1, 2008,
killing Raul Reyes, one of the rebel group’s senior leaders. In
addition, Uribe told a group of visiting U.S. lawmakers that Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez represented a threat to South America, similar to
the one Adolf Hitler once posed to Europe.



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