Venezuela Calls Back Envoy to Colombia
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Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Colombia after accusing the neighboring country Thursday of sending police to capture a Colombian rebel on Venezuelan soil and bribing local authorities to help.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Panama, Flavio Granados, said late on Friday his country had asked him to leave Panama after statements made by its leader in the midst of a diplomatic scandal involving Cuba.
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CARACAS, Venezuela &#151; Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Spain sparked a political feud Tuesday after Spain's Socialist foreign minister accused Madrid's previous conservative government of backing a failed coup against Chavez in 2002.
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Colombia will allow no more international missions seeking the release of hostages held by leftist rebels after a Venezuela-led plan dissolved in a flurry of accusations last week, the government said on Monday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, after meeting with his Colombian counterpart in this Spanish colonial city, swore to treat any illegal, armed Colombian group that enters his country as an enemy of state.
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By Hugh Bronstein and Pascal Fletcher BOGOTA/CARACAS  - A top Colombian guerrilla wasprotected by Venezuelan officials before his capture, an actionthat has triggered the worst dispute in years between theAndean countries, Colombia said on Sunday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's political backing for Colombia's Marxist guerrillas will make it harder to secure a deal to release dozens of hostages held by rebel leaders, the Colombian government said.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez said on Sunday the final resolution to the worst  diplomatic dispute between Venezuela and Colombia in years will  depend on the outcome of a meeting between the two countries'  presidents this week.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President AlvaroUribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over thecovert of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, arriving Tuesday in this Spanish colonial city for talks with Colombia's leader, angrily denied that he has aided the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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The United States sided Saturday with Colombia, its strongest ally in Latin America, over a growing rift between Venezuela and Colombia over Bogota's hiring of bounty hunters to capture a Marxist guerrilla in the Venezuelan capital.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez on Friday froze bilateral accords and business deals  with Colombia in retaliation for a Colombian police operation  that abducted a top Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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Venezuela accused U.S. anti-drug agents Friday of collaborating with traffickers and rejected Washington's allegations that rampant corruption has allowed illegal drug smuggling to thrive in the South American country.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President HugoChavez criticized the United States on Sunday for backingColombia in a dispute over the abduction of a top Colombianrebel and said Washington was trying to divide Latin America.
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Venezuela dispatched extra troops as part of an effort to tighten security along its border with neighboring Colombia, but officials on Monday denied that the move was linked to a heated dispute over the capture of a rebel leader in Caracas by bounty hunters paid by Colombia.
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Venezuela's president reportedly recalls his Buenos Aires envoy after a complaint by Argentina's leader.