Colombia on Friday blasted the United States' "excessive" military presence in the Caribbean as destabilizing for all Latin America, a sharp rebuke from one of Washington's oldest regional allies.  

Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio told AFP that the US deployment of several warships off Venezuela was "disproportionate" and the threat of military intervention was rattling the region.

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