He claims that an agreement last month under which Colombia will allow the United States access to bases for anti-drugs operations constitutes a threat to Venezuela.

查韦斯声称上周美国与哥伦比亚达成协议，允许美国将其作为反毒品行动基地，这对委内瑞来来说是个威胁。

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Foreign officials who watch Venezuela closely say that Cuban agents occupy key posts in Venezuela's military intelligence agency, but these claims are impossible to verify.

近距离观察委内瑞拉的外国官员表示古巴军官在委国军情局担任要职，但这些说法未能得到证实。

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Venezuela claims the support of the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), Bolivia and much of the Caribbean.

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The site is just 40km from the Venezuelan border, well inside the two-thirds of Guyana lying west of the river Essequibo that Venezuela claims.

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Finally, there are claims that "Chavista" agents from Venezuela and Cuba are already in Peru and that they came through Bolivia and then Puno using local hospitals and the offices of ALBA to co-opt sympathizers to destabilize the country.

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