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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: South American leaders attack US bases plan AFP - Saturday, August 29 BARILOCHE, Argentina (AFP) - - South American presidents attacked Friday plans for US bases in Colombia at a summit in Argentina, voicing their fears of renewed interference by Washington in their region. ADVERTISEMENT "It's about mobility to make war," said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the fiercest opponent of the plan, as he brandished a document he said was a US air force strategy document setting out that aim. "The US global strategy for domination explains the installation of these bases in Colombia," the long-time US critic told the meeting of 12 heads of state in Argentina's mountain resort of Bariloche. Chavez leads regional skepticism that an imminent accord between Washington and Bogota allowing US military use of seven Colombian bases is about fighting drug traffickers and Colombian rebels as US officials insist. He claims the bases are preparation for a US-led invasion of his oil-rich nation, which recently bought billions of dollars' worth of sophisticated fighter jets and tanks from its military ally Russia. The bases in neighboring Colombia, which has received 5.5 billion dollars in mostly military US aid over the past decade, could unleash "winds of war," Chavez has warned. Venezuela's closest allies, Ecuador and Bolivia, back that stance. "As long as there are uniformed foreigners in a South American country, it's difficult for us to think there can be peace," Bolivian President Evo Morales told the summit. "I doubt that a US military presence in Colombia will help the fight against drug trafficking. It is only to control specific countries," he charged. Morales urged the presidents to sign a join declaration that they "do not accept foreign military bases." Uruguay's president, Tabare Vazquez, added his "firm" protest to the imminent bases deal. "We have stated that there should not be any foreign military bases on our soil or on that of this bloc's member countries," he said. Vazquez said that stance recently led his government to refuse permission for a British plane carrying fuel for fighter aircraft in the Falkland Islands -- a disputed archipelago off Argentina -- to land in Uruguay. Even countries not hostile to the United States, including Brazil, Argentina and Chile, see the beefed-up US presence a threat to regional stability. Argentine President Cristina Kirchner said on opening the one-day Union of South American Nations (Unasur) summit that the bloc should take a stance against "a non-South American country installing bases on one of our territories." Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who currently holds the rotating Unasur chair, said there has be discussion of "how a sovereign act of one country can affect and destabilize the region." Of the 12 countries represented at the summit -- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela -- only Peru offered qualified support for the bases plan. "What alarms us is that... we can see us as part of a strategy of other (military) blocs" from outside the region, Peruvian President Alan Garcia said. "If the United States ends up putting invisible (stealth) aircraft and radars in Colombia, I would be tempted to sign a document rejecting the bases. If an agreement is reached defining the Colombian area (subject to US military activity), I would not see a threat," he said. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was expected to run the gauntlet of criticism to defend his decision to broaden the US military presence in his country. Colombia was seeking to broaden the summit's discussion to include Venezuela's links to Russia, and Brazil's multi-billion-dollar defense deals with France. Fidel Castro, the former leader of Cuba, which is not part of Unasur, said on his government's official website on Thursday that the bases were part of a US quest to "eliminate" Venezuela's leftist government. Washington's "only purpose with these bases is the ability to put US troops in South America in a matter of hours," the article said. 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