A day after saying he wanted to cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged Monday that his neighbor recently let a U.S. military plane carry out “electronic warfare” operations against Venezuela.

From Newsmax.com

A day after saying he wanted to cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged Monday that his neighbor recently let a U.S. military plane carry out “electronic warfare” operations against Venezuela.

Chavez said his intelligence services detected the plane that he said took off from a Colombian base and flew along the border between the two South American nations, which have seen long tense relations worsen in recent months.

Without giving details, he said Venezuela’s military intelligence intercepted a conversation between the pilot and air traffic controllers in the northern Colombia city of Barranquilla. The aircraft conducted espionage operations, he said.

“Through our strategic intelligence, we detected an RC-12 airplane belonging to the U.S. Air Force,” Chavez said during a talk to an auditorium packed with military officers, rank-and-file soldiers and cadets.

“It was a plane specialized for electronic war, and it was carrying out electronic war operations,” he added.

A representative of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas declined to immediately respond to the accusations. No one was immediately available at U.S. Southern Command in Miami to comment.

Chavez has made similiar accusations in the past, saying in December that a U.S. military plane had entered Venezuelan airspace and was met by his military’s F-16s and escorted out. The P-3 plane took off from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao, he said.

The U.S. Southern Command denied it.

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