Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Friday said he had sent troops to the Colombian border because of alleged threatening moves by Bogota, dpa report. In televised remarks, Chavez charged that his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe, whose second term in office ends next week, was trying to provoke war against Venezuela. "Uribe is obsessed with a war," Chavez charged. "That has become a threat for Venezuela." Chavez did not offer evidence for his claims. He cut relations last week with Bogota after Colombia accused Venezuela of harbouring some 1,500 leftist Colombian guerillas of the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) on its territory. -- SPA
