Venezuela sends soldiers to border
Updated on 06 November 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government is sending 15,000 soldiers to the border with Colombia, saying the military build-up is needed to increase security, combat drug trafficking and root out paramilitary groups.
The deployment to the Venezuelan border states of Zulia, Tachira, Apure, Amazonas and Bolivar follows shootings involving troops and gunmen that have heightened tensions between the two countries.
The latest came on Thursday when pro-Chavez politician Iris Varela said Venezuelan soldiers killed a suspected Colombian paramilitary fighter and detained five others near the border.
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