Venezuelan troops go to Colombian border
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to its border with Colombia to crack down on smuggling amid a bitter feud between the two countries' governments.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday to start a sensitive mission to collect two women politicians and a young boy held hostage for years by Marxist guerrillas.
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Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday to start a sensitive mission to collect two women politicians and a young boy held hostage for years by Marxist guerrillas.
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Left-wing Colombian rebels indicate they are ready to meet Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for preliminary talks.
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DR Congo says it is sending troops to the border with Rwanda amid growing tensions.
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Two helicopters left Venezuela on Friday in the first leg of an operation that could free three hostages from the jungles of Colombia.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela said on Thursday  it was ready to arrest Colombian rebels found hiding in its  territory as Bogota and Caracas tried to end a stand-off over  the seizure of a Marxist guerrilla leader in Venezuela's  capital.
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Venezuela's President Chavez visits Colombia for talks on how to broker a hostage deal with left-wing rebels.
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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez sends helicopters to Colombia to pick up three hostages to be freed by Farc rebels.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez prepared to send helicopters into neighboring Colombia to pick up three hostages who have been held for years by leftist rebels.
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Colombia and Venezuela say a diplomatic crisis over the capture of a Colombian rebel is over.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia blamed Marxist FARC  rebels on Sunday for killing at least five Venezuelan soldiers  and an oil engineer in one of the deadliest attacks in recent  years on the two country's jungle border.
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SANTA BARBARA, Venezuela -- A whodunit involving two undercover Colombian soldiers whose bodies were found here in western Venezuela has heightened tensions between the neighboring countries and lifted the lid on the dirty little secrets of their border relations.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with ...
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CARACAS : An armed group killed six Venezuelan Army troops and an engineer in an ambush along the Colombian border, Defence Minister Jorge Garcia Carneiro said.
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HATO EL CHARCOTE, Venezuela  - Venezuelan troops  and police escorted local authorities to inspect a cattle ranch  owned by Britain's Vestey Group on Saturday in the first  government enforcement of a rural land redistribution law that  critics say threatens private property.
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Venezuela has started a rescue operation in Colombia to secure the release of two hostages held by leftist rebels, an official said on Thursday, after a similar effort led by President Hugo Chavez collapsed last year.