'Closing' the border

Fausta's Blog:

Here's one of the more absurd headlines that have come up during the past four days Venezuela shuts border as accusations fly.

All that Venezuela claims to have done is close its borders to commercial traffic with Colombia. The border remains as porous as any border could possibly be, particularly when it comes to the FARC's capability to move about freely.

That's exactly the opposite of what the region needs....

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Fausta also list a comparison of the military strengths of the three parties. Colombia looks like the stronger party and that is before you get to more intelligent and better trained forces. Then you add in the fact that the US can provide signal and satellite intelligence to the Colombian forces it would become a real mismatch. Chavez would be burning up his investment in hardware with little result.