Does the agreement threaten the national security of any Latin American or Caribbean country?
No, although Chavez is trying to whip up popular and political concerns by vastly exaggerating the scope and reach of the Colombia-US base rights agreement. Unasur is trying to make it into a South American security crisis, which it is not by any means. The long-buried ghosts of the bad interventionist gringos are being trotted out again, though the folks doing the reviving reek of hypocrisy. But the real threat to South American democracy and stability isn’t the “Yanqui Imperio.” The real threat is Chavez. Uribe and the Colombians know this, and so do Alan Garcia and his fellow Peruvians. Chavez foams at the mouth against Colombia and the US, accusing them of plotting to invade Venezuela. However, in the past 18 months Chavez has been the interventionist. He threatened to send Venezuelan troops to Bolivia. He also deployed army battalions and tanks to the border and threatened Colombia with war after FARC’s No. 2 chieftain Raul Reyes was killed in northern Ecuador by a Colombian air s
