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Weekly Report - 13 August 2009 (WR-09-32)
Unasur fails to reach consensus over Colombian-US military bases
The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) met in Quito on 10
August. Its official agenda went all but unreported as it was hijacked by the
debate over Colombian-US military bases. Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe had
spent the previous week on a peripatetic tour of South America in an endeavour
to, if not drum up support, win understanding for the accord with the US. Unasur
heads of state failed to reach a consensus over the thorny issue, which they
agreed to discuss at a special summit in Argentina at a later date. Venezuela's
President Hugo Chávez , meanwhile, once again ratcheted up the tension with
Colombia, indulging his taste for sabre-rattling: “the winds of war have started
to blow", he said.
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