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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: Venezuela says US violated airspace
Venezuela accused the United States of violating its airspace around two small Caribbean islands over the weekend in what it said was a provocation co-ordinated with neighbouring Colombia.
The United States said it was looking into the allegation made by the anti-US government of President Hugo Chavez just two days after Venezuela accused troops from US ally Colombia of crossing its border.
"This is just the latest step in a series of provocations in which they want to involve our country," Defence Minister Gustavo Rangel said at a news conference.
The US ambassador in Caracas was being summoned to explain the incident, Venezuela's foreign minister said.
A US Navy warplane on Saturday entered the airspace around La Orchila and another island about 120km from the South American country's mainland, Rangel said.
La Orchila has a military base and a presidential residence and is well-known because Chavez was held prisoner there during a brief coup against him in 2002. Venezuela generally bans all but its military from flying over the island.
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