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Washington rejects Chavez's accusations of military assault against Venezuela

The United States Government Monday branded as "wild conspiracy theories" accusations by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez against Colombia and the US for being allegedly preparing a military attack against Venezuela.

"Our focus in the region is on a positive agenda that features things like free trade and economic development, not on any kind of wild conspiracy theories," State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said, as quoted by DPA.

Casey voiced the most conciliatory message issued by US President George W. Bush's Government to Venezuela in the last weeks.

"Our focus in Venezuela is aimed at having god relations with that country," Casey said.

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04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."