A robot and 3,500 troops to protect Chávez in Colombia

[Bacchus39]

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/01/23/en_pol_esp_a-robot-and-3,500-tr_23A2203815.shtml

looks like Uribe missed another great chance to assassinate Chavez. maybe those 3500 troops are part of the invasion force that was supposed to happen.



A robot and 3,500 troops to protect Chávez in Colombia

Latin America
Security arrangements for the visit that Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez will hold on Saturday to the city of Cartagena, northern Colombia, include more than 3,500 troops and robot "Andrews," a bomb disposal special device.

The Chief of Cartagena police, Carlos Mena, said on Friday that the robot will be used as part of the plan to guarantee the security of Chávez, who will meet in the historic resort with his Colombian counterpart Álvaro Uribe, AFP reported.

The meeting between the two presidents will take place at the Casa de Huéspedes Ilustres (Distinguished guest house), 683 miles north of Bogotá. The meeting will be held six months after a similar event took place in the Venezuelan city of Punto Fijo, where both Presidents left behind the crisis that erupted in November 2007 and announced a new era in their relationships.

[Mika]

1. A robot?

I just love el Universal.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bacchus39]

2. thats what it says, in Spanish too

http://espectaculos.eluniversal.com/2009/01/24/pol_art_robot-apoyara-custod_1239601.shtml

[Judi Lynn]

3. Seems as if it were only yesterday: Bush visits Colombia amid security and protests

Bush visits Colombia amid security and protests

http://img.iht.com.nyud.net:8090/images/2007/03/12/web-0312colombia550.jpg

Demonstrators in Colombia clashed with the police yesterday after President Bush
arrived in Bogotá. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)

Bush visits Colombia amid security and protests
By Jim Rutenberg and Simon Romero Published: March 12, 2007

BOGOTÁ, Colombia: The risky nature of President George W. Bush's trip to this violent country was spelled out on a television monitor aboard Air Force One en route from Uruguay: "Colombia presents the most significant threat environment of this five country trip!"

Listing the terrorist and criminal threats as "high," the message — meant for Bush's security detail but seen by reporters on the plane — underscored the complications Bush is confronting during his visit to South and Central America.

~snip~
Bush's visit to Bogotá was in itself a statement of support for Uribe: no American president has visited the capital city since 1982, largely because of security concerns.

Aides said Bush chose to come to illustrate that under Uribe it was now possible for an American president to visit without incident.

But his hosts were not taking any chances. After the empty decoy motorcade left the airport, the real one traveled to the palace at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour under heavy military guard, with 20,000 troops and police assigned to his protection, lining his route with submachine guns visible on the street and on rooftops. The motorcade passed nearby protesters carrying a large sign that read "Yankee Go Home" and another banner displaying the Communist hammer and sickle.

The leading local newspaper here, El Tiempo, griped that Bush's visit was too short, and featured a front-page headline that read, "Bush: Seven hours are enough?" Above it read a smaller headline listing the visits by the last two United States president to visit the city: "Kennedy (1961, 13 hours) and Reagan (1982, 5 hours)."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec04/chile_11-22.html

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The Spanish colonialists who fortified this Colombian seaport 400 years ago to guard against pirates and rival imperial powers could only have dreamed of the kind of security being put in place for U.S. President George W. Bush's visit here on Monday.

Backed by warplanes, helicopters, battle ships and two submarines, some 15,000 Colombian security forces _ equal to the number of Americans who took part in the Fallujah offensive in Iraq _ are being deployed here to safeguard Bush's four-hour trip to discuss the war on drugs.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-102686940.html

http://www.defensetech.org.nyud.net:8090/archives/images/detective-magnifying-glass.jpg

[Bacchus39]

4. Bush is gone!! I wonder how many troops will be there for Obama's first visit

still think Colombia is going to invade Venezuela??????

[Mika]

5. Could be that Colombia is going to invade Venezuela. They've got robots now.

[Bacchus39]

6. I bet they do

I mean they've had pressure cookers and cell phones for years now.

[Mika]

7. I can't tell if you're joking or not.

Your posts are so whacked - I just can't tell. :shrug:

[Bacchus39]

8. well, just ask Mr. Raul Reyes what he thinks of Colombian robots

or wait, you can't he's dead.

I'm whacked?? you are the one who was amused by a bomb disposing robot. big deal.