{"id":1639,"date":"2008-03-02T17:53:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/02\/venezuela-seems-poised-to-inva\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T17:53:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T17:53:10","slug":"venezuela-seems-poised-to-inva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/venezuela-seems-poised-to-inva\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela seems poised to invade Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, where did this come from?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is sending thousands of troops and tanks to the border with Colombia, marking a sharp escalation in regional tensions.Speaking on his weekly television show, President Chavez also said Venezuela&#8217;s embassy in Colombia would close.Mr Chavez said he was reacting to the &#8220;cowardly murder&#8221; of a leading Farc rebel by Colombian forces in a raid just inside Ecuador on Saturday.Later, Ecuador recalled its ambassador to Bogota in protest at the incursion.Raul Reyes and at least 16 other rebels were killed in the operation, which took place about 1.8km (one mile) inside Ecuadorean territory.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7274038.stm\">[SOURCE]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, where did this come from? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is sending thousands of troops and tanks to the border with Colombia, marking a sharp escalation in regional tensions.Speaking on his weekly television show, President Chavez also said Venezuela&#8217;s embassy in Colombia would close.Mr Chavez said he was reacting to the &#8220;cowardly murder&#8221; of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/venezuela-seems-poised-to-inva\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venezuela seems poised to invade Columbia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-qr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}