Chavez denounces war threat from Colombia or USA as unions organize. 'Venezuela will never, never be a Yankee colony again.' Colombia and the US signed a deal on October 30 to expand the US military presence on seven Colombian air, naval and army bases, grant US personnel diplomatic immunity for crimes committed in Colombia, and facilitate the movement of the US military throughout the country.Chavez said: ?The government of Colombia is no longer in Bogota, it is in the United States ... Colombia handed itself over. Not the people of Colombia, the government of Colombia, the Colombian oligarchy.?
