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As Hollywood director Oliver Stone releases his pro-Hugo Chavez film, “South of the Border,” the Socialist International (SI) reports that the oil-rich Venezuelan ruler is suppressing dissent, interfering with freedom of the press, mismanaging the economy, and threatening peace in the region. – AIM

Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez’s politicized necrophilia may seem almost too lurid to believe, but I can testify from personal experience that they may well be an understatement. – Christopher Hitchens

(CNN) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed troops to areas near the Colombian border and says he is reviewing plans for a potential war as tension between the two nations rises.

Chávez’s record of providing money, arms, political support, and, yes, safe haven to groups waging a murderous war against a sovereign state openly violates international law. If the United States and our neighbors fail to muster a meaningful response to Colombia’s latest evidence and formal appeal for help, they will share the blame for giving Chávez’s bandit regime a license to kill.

The United States is giving strong backing for Colombia’s call for an international investigation of FARC activities in Venezuela, and says the government in Caracas has an obligation to cooperate. The comments follow what was termed here a “fact-based” Colombian presentation to the Organization of American States (OAS) Thursday about the alleged presence of some 1,500 FARC guerrillas on Venezuelan soil.

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has threatened to halt oil exports to the US if his country is attacked by Colombia – a close US ally.

Pretending to be indignant over Colombia’s discovery of 28 FARC terrorist camps in Venezuela, and disappointed that his pick lost the Colombian election, Chavez childishly severs diplomatic ties with Colombia.

A Hezbollah-like car bomb explodes in a border town as a congresswoman asks Homeland Security about links between the terrorist group and Mexican drug cartels. This is more than an immigration problem. Our worst nightmare may be yet to come.

Colombia has asked the Organization of American States to hold a meeting of its permanent council to address Bogota’s accusation that leftist guerrillas are hiding in neighboring Venezuela.

Please help free anti-communist activist Alejandro Peña Esclusa from Chavez. The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. can be contacted at 202-342-2214. The Ambassador, Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, can be contacted by email at despacho@venezuela-us(dot)org Also please send a copy of your protest note calling for freedom for Peña Esclusa to the press department at prensa@venezuela-us(dot)org Also contact your legislators 202-224-3121