"Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has long been a source of regional instability. Now he is at it again, threatening his Colombian neighbors with war. This past weekend, after ordering thousands of Venezuelan troops to the Columbian border, Chavez gave a nationally televised broadcast in which he told the nation, “Let’s not lose a day in fulfilling our main mission: to prepare for war.” Such bluster is nothing new for Chavez, and tensions with Columbia have been running particularly high in recent years".