Another just-released WikiLeaks U.S. diplomatic cable reveals former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was ready to order troops to cross into Venezuela and capture rebel leaders in 2008. According to one secret cable, Uribe told U.S. Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that he was “prepared to authorize Colombian forces to cross into Venezuela, arrest FARC leaders, and bring them to justice in Colombia.” Less than two months after Uribe’s meeting with Mullen, Colombia’s military attacked a FARC camp in Ecuador on March 1, 2008, killing Raul Reyes, one of the rebel group’s senior leaders. In addition, Uribe told a group of visiting U.S. lawmakers that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez represented a threat to South America, similar to the one Adolf Hitler once posed to Europe.