US military presence a threat in SouthAm

Colombia: Venezuelan Deputy Israel Sotillo stated in this capital that the United States manage the Colombian policy, what is a serious danger, and exemplified what happened in Afghanistan, Somalia, Dominican Republic, and Panama with direct interventions.

Sotillo talked Cambio newspaper of the recent military agreement inked between the northern power and the South American country, as part of an empire attack, so which regional peoples should be united.

"Sooner or later Colombia is going to give a gasp of full liberation and join to this progressive movement," he said.

The presence of the Venezuelan deputy in Bolivia responds a government's initiative to explain the accord signed between Bogota and Washington, through which the US State could use seven military bases in Colombian territory. Sotillo recalled that in the recent summit of the Union of South American States, held in the Argentinean city of Bariloche, statesmen from that integrationist bloc stated that this action could threaten sovereignty and integrity of South American countries.

This is a way to weaken progressive governments, but while having people's support, it will be impossible to oust Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, or Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

La Paz, Prensa Latina