Venezuela Halts Colombia Business Deals Over Kidnap
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez froze ongoing bilateral accords and energy deals with  Colombia on Friday in retaliation for the abduction of a  leading Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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Colombia rejects accusations that its security forces violated Venezuelan territory to capture a rebel leader.
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Venezuela calls back its ambassador to Colombia as a row over the capture of a Colombian rebel grows.
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Colombian rebels said in a letter on Monday intense military activity had impeded the release of three hostages they had promised to hand over to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday, the advance party of a mission to pick up three hostages held for years by Marxist guerrillas.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  stopped oil exports to Exxon Mobil Corp  on Tuesday,  escalating a multibillion-dollar fight with the U.S. company  two days after threatening to cut off all supplies to America.
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Colombia agreed on Wednesday to allow Venezuelan planes and helicopters to land in the country and pick up three hostages held for years by Marxist guerrillas, including a child born in captivity.
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President Hugo Chavez said Friday that diplomatic and commercial relations with Colombia would be put on hold until it apologizes for paying bounty hunters to abduct a rebel leader from inside Venezuela, insisting the neighboring country's actions were indefensible.
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Venezuela says it is investigating claims that a Colombia rebel leader was seized on its territory.
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Efforts at freeing hostages held by Colombian rebels stalled over the weekend after a guerrilla leader said he would not attend talks in neighboring Venezuela aimed at clinching a prisoner exchange.
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Venezuela turns down Colombia's offer of a regional summit to resolve a row over a kidnapped rebel leader.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez froze ongoing bilateral accords and energy deals with Colombia on Friday in retaliation for the abduction of a leading Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez suspends key ties with Colombia over a "violation of national sovereignty".
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The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia said Tuesday they have smoothed over a diplomatic dispute that erupted when a Colombian rebel was seized on the streets of Caracas, agreeing to reinstate trade agreements and improve security along their common border.
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, Jan 10 - Marxist rebels freed two women hostages from Colombia's jungle on Thursday in a deal brokered by Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, that could mark a breakthrough in peace efforts.
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Colombian Marxist guerrillas have said they will turn over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez just weeks after Bogota ended the leftist leader's efforts to broker the release of rebel captives.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President HugoChavez froze ongoing bilateral accords and energy deals withColombia on Friday in retaliation for the abduction of aleading Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.