[rvoitier]

Good to know. However, worse ratios (below) have battled before in history and Chavez is crazy enough to. Does he have the backing of Putin/Medvedev and appeasment of Obama?

CIA World Factbook:

Columbia:
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 8,212,944
females age 16-49: 10,045,435 (2009 est.)

Venezuela:
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 5,391,582
females age 16-49: 5,873,563 (2009 est.)

[Publius6961]

The proper name of that country is, and has always been, Colombia.

Two "O"s