Venezuela rejects Colombian Military incursion of its territory

Caracas,Caracas, Venezuela, 17 May 2008. Today, the Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs issued a public communiqué to reject the incursion of Colombian Military forces into its territory. A 60 men military commando was intercepted 800 meters inside the Venezuelan territory at Apure state- western Venezuela-. They were asked to return to Colombia.
The Venezuelan government rejected the Colombian military incursion and recalled International Law provisions on the inviolability of a State territory. This event adds to the already strained bilateral relations between Caracas and Bogotá. After the INTERPOL forensic report on the FARC laptop was unveiled in Bogotá, President Chavez declared that the bilateral relations were under revision again. Furthermore, there were acrimonious exchanges against Colombian President Alvaro Uribe during the just concluded LATAC-EU Summit in Lima, Peru. Both Presidents of Ecuador and Venezuela disdained the seriousness of Colombian allegations of their links with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Oddly, Pro Government journalist and former Vice President José Vicente Rangel envisaged i this incursion in the last few days. The Colombian Minister of Defense, Jose Manuel Santos, is a rather known enemy of Venezuela. His family owns a major Colombian newspaper with link to Venezuelan opposition news network Globovison.
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Sources: VTV, Globovion, Unionradio, El Universal, RNV,