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Credit: Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS | Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:05pm EDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's army warned neighbor Colombia on Friday it was ready to repel any attacks a day after President Hugo Chavez cut ties over Bogota's charges that Venezuela was harboring leftist Colombian guerrillas. Socialist Chavez's severing of diplomatic relations has ratcheted up tensions between OPEC member Venezuela, a major supplier of oil to the United States, and U.S. ally Colombia. Their volatile Andean region has long been plagued by marauding guerrilla armies and drug-trafficking gangs. But while Venezuelan leaders heaped invective on outgoing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, calling him a "warmonger," Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua said, "The situation on the frontier is normal." Despite the break-off in ties, the main crossing point between San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela and Cucuta in Colombia was open on Friday and vehicles and pedestrians were crossing, witnesses said. There was no sign of any immediate military build-up, although searches at road blocks on the Venezuelan side seemed to have been stepped up. Most analysts believe a military clash is unlikely, but Colombia and Venezuela are among the most militarized nations in South America and have sparred and squabbled in the past over border security and guerrillas. Venezuelan Defense Minister General Carlos Mata appeared on television, in military fatigues and flanked by top commanders, to declare loyalty to Chavez and to sternly warn Uribe. Uribe, who will be replaced by President-elect Juan Manuel Santos on August 7, has ramped up accusations that Chavez's government gives free rein to left-wing guerrillas in Venezuelan territory. Mata, echoing Chavez's words, rejected what he called Colombia's "aggression." Venezuela has dismissed as lies the charges by Colombia, which presented photos, videos and maps to the Organization of American States to back its allegations about the rebels' presence. "The Venezuelan people and the Colombian government should know that the (Venezuelan) Bolivarian National Armed Forces, as guarantor of the nation's security, will respond firmly if any foreign forces seek to violate our sacred soil," Mata said. He said the Venezuelan military, which has some 20,000 troops along the porous 1,375-mile border, was "operationally prepared." A border commander, General Franklin Marquez, said frontier patrols had been stepped up. Declaring the diplomatic break with Bogota on Thursday, Chavez ordered "maximum alert" on the frontier but there have been no reports of significant troop movements so far. LOSS OF COMMERCE Bilateral trade, which once stood at $7 billion annually, has plummeted since Chavez suspended commercial ties last year to protest at a deal by Bogota allowing U.S. forces to use Colombian military bases. Chavez, who portrays himself as an anti-U.S. and anti-capitalist standard bearer in Latin America, says these "imperialist" bases threaten Venezuela. Analysts say both countries could lose if the rift deepens. Venezuelan private industry association Conindustria urged the country's leaders to resume dialogue with Bogota, saying the falloff in trade hurt Venezuela's economy too. "Unfortunately, the ones who pay the consequences of these conflicts are consumers, because they suffer the problems of scarcity and rising prices through the break in the commercial flow between the two countries," Conindustria said. Chavez has publicly expressed the hope Colombian-Venezuelan relations, which were turbulent with Uribe in power, can be returned to normal under Santos, who has been careful to avoid public comment on the dispute so far. Santos, who as defense minister played a major role in Uribe's energetic military sweeps against guerrilla groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has said he favors dialogue with Caracas. As the nationalist rhetoric flowed, other Latin American governments, including regional powerhouse Brazil and the Unasur grouping of South American states, were working to try to defuse the crisis through diplomatic mediation. However, Colombia said it could take its allegations of cross-border attacks by rebels it says are based in Venezuela to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Bogota says Venezuela is failing in its international obligations by not acting against the drug-trafficking guerrillas. (Additional reporting by Eyanir Chinea; editing by Mohammad Zargham) World Comments See All Comments (2) | Post Comment Jul 23, 2010 2:23pm EDT Are these rogue nations so lacking in self awareness that they think the international community believes their lies. Venezuela claiming aggression from Columbia over words. North Korea denies that they sunk the Chenoan. Iran claims its nuke program is peaceful. Why do they keep wasting their time defending their blatant lies? Andymc7 Report As Abusive Jul 23, 2010 2:24pm EDT After the show one can get the wrong impression that all of Colombia’s trouble with Insurrection or Guerilla Warfare is somehow Venezuela’s fault when the fact of the matter is that for decades it is Venezuela who has been suffering at the hands of Colombian insurgents who cross Venezuela’s borders to kidnap wealthy farmers or business men and ask for ransom. As for Venezuela’s lacking of combat experience one would have to say that Colombia has no experience whatsoever in conventional warfare against an organized armed nation with Airforce, Navy and Army, only against guerilla and in Venezuela in the 1960’s there was the same issue of leftist guerilla warfare and it was successfully dealt with by the Venezuelan army at the time. An amnesty was reached and much of those guerilla fighters of the 1960’s ended up being respected politicians. Some I believe are part of the current leftist Government of Venezuela. The billions of USD that Colombia receives from the US is something to think about because I believe it is quite more than what is currently spent aiding Mexico and all of Central America (I’m not entirely sure but then again I’m just a guy making a comment not a proper journalist). I am afraid that the SHOW put up by the Colombian ambassador to the OAE is nothing more than a preview for a much bigger show that would perhaps include a violation to Venezuela’s sovereignty, the killing of some Colombian rebel in Venezuelan soil and at least one laptop computer with gigabytes of information linking Venezuela’s President with every single guerilla fighter in Colombia and the guerilla fighters in Colombia with Al Qaeda and even late poor old Saddam who was himself the devil. Is it not summer and is this not a summer blockbuster? It doesn’t have to make much sense to be a summer blockbuster does it? As a guy who works and lives in Venezuela I just want to say that I’m not a Chavez supporter or a leftist for that matter and I did not like the way he talked one bit. There was so much resentment about Venezuela having money etcetera. 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