Chavez does it again by Claudia Sonea

Apparently the Spanish King knew what he was talking when he asked the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to shut up. It seems like Chavez keeps on getting to trouble and the newest one is a personal dispute with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. He announced a total end of contact with the Colombian government, but did not specify if there is the end of diplomatic relations. The rupture would not benefit any of the two countries; they share a 1,380-mile border and only last year it was registered $5 billion in trade. The entire dispute was created at a meeting with leftist rebels (FARC) a week ago, when Uribe removed both Chavez and a Colombian senator saying that the Venezuelan leader had violated the conditions of his involvement by speaking directly to the head of Colombia's army. That made Chavez to lash out and say at a conference in the southwestern state of Tachira that the relations are being frozen due to the fact that Uribe is a liar and he doesn't want peace. However, he is already used to this type of situation in late 2005 with former Mexican President Vicente Fox that ended by reducing the relations between Mexico and Venezuela to lower-level diplomats. Uribe proves that it is not for no reason that Washington considers him its main ally in South America and he tried to calm down differences with Chavez on Wednesday, stating that presidents should put aside their "angers" and "vanities" to get on with their work. Furthermore, Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo said that despite the fact that Chavez called back his ambassador to Colombia on Tuesday, they will not call theirs because they consider the dispute not to be with Venezuela, but with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Meantime, rebels are holding 46 high-profile hostages, including three American defense contractors and French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and requested in their exchange the freeing of all imprisoned rebels. What will happen next? Will the ego of Chavez endanger people's life? Stay connected, more to come.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_colombia;_ylt=AtLvOn4K36_eZpxtXPL_qv6s0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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