Rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) said it would give "unconditional support" to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez if the United States invaded Venezuela, said one of the guerrillas leaders in a communiqué published Monday, AFP reported.

"If the US war hawks used Colombia as a platform to invade the friendly Venezuelan people, the FARC would voice their strongest rejection and offer their unconditional support to the Bolivarian process," said Raúl Reyes, spokesman for the rebel group.

Reyes' remarks came during an interview with Anncol, a news agency publishing information on FARC, the most ancient and militarily powerful rebel group operating in Colombia.

Reyes branded Colombian President Álvaro Uribe as "a paramilitary linked to drug traffic." "He is a dangerous squire of the Yankee politics in the south of our hemisphere."