Tensions between the radical government of Venezuela and pro-US Colombia reached new heights on Sunday after Hugo Chávez apparently ordered the mobilisation of his air force and ordered tank battalions to move to the frontier between the two countries.
The announcement, made on the Venezuelan president’s weekly television show Aló Presidente, came a day after Colombian forces killed a senior commander of the leftwing Farc guerrilla movement in an attack in Ecuador, Venezuela’s ally.
