Hi I'm from Venezuela and I can explain you better.
First Chavez is losing popularity, he no longer has Bush in the Us presidency, he needs an enemy, he needs to find a way to make people look outside of the country instead of looking inside.
Believe it or not many people in my country voted Chavez because they feel he is strong, they feel he is the boss. You know the way during school times, when people consider the tough guy, the hard guy, the most popular? It's something like that.
When Chavez insult people, when Chavez claim that outsiders are a menace, when Chavez ask the people to unite against an external enemy...
It's hard to believe, but then many people consider Chavez popular, think about him as "The Boss". Chavez appeal to the most primitive instincts of people and sadly succeed.

On the other hand Chavez claims that it's because Colombia has accepted to have US Military bases in Colombia borders, however if the problem is with the United States, why Chavez keeps selling Oil to the US?
It's just an excuse.
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I live in Venezuela

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