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Chávez: U.S. is trying to control
South American resources
CARACAS, August 23.—The Venezuelan president, Hugo
Chávez , warned this Sunday that the location of
U.S. bases in Colombia is an attempt to dominate all
of South America in order to take possession of its
natural reserves of gas and oil, vegetation and
fresh water located in the Orinoco Belt in
Venezuela, Amazonia and the Paraná Aquifer in the
Southern Cone.
 On
August 14, the Colombian government announced the
completion of negotiations over the U.S. use of
seven bases in that country, within a cooperation
agreement supposedly aimed at “combating drug
trafficking and terrorism.”
In
that context President Chávez affirmed on his
regular Sunday Alo, Presidente program, “they
say that they are not bases (but) they are
converting the whole of Colombia into one large
base, because details of the agreement have already
begun to come out.”
“The
Colombian government has once again betrayed (Latin
American) trust by allowing the installation of
imperialist military forces,” he stated.
“The
agreement is aberrant… the troops will have
immunity… they can do what they like, Colombian
justice can’t even touch them,” Chávez stated.
According to the Bolivarian leader, Colombia is to
become “a U.S. operational center that will allow it
to cover all of South America, with its spy planes,
spy satellites, its intelligence and
counterintelligence corps.”
President Chávez specially emphasized to the
Venezuelan people that no “ultra-nationalist or far
less anti-Colombian sentiment,” can be allowed and
noted that, in fact, “if there’s anything that the
Yanki bourgeoisie is frightened of, it is Colombian
and Venezuelan unity.” They are afraid of the union
of our peoples,” he affirmed.
Translated by Granma International
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