Colombia Offers Meeting on Venezuela Dispute
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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 thecapture of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Colombia rejects a proposal by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to travel to Colombia to meet a rebel leader.
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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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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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia is proposing to meet  with Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate the  release of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostages  including three Americans.
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LLANOGRANDE, Colombia  - Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe told visiting U.S. lawmakers on Saturday his government's record illustrated it was addressing Democrats' concerns over anti-union violence and impunity that have stymied their approval of a free trade deal.
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Colombian Nobel-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is to join government peace talks with ELN rebels.
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President Hugo Chavez says the chief of Colombia's largest rebel group has contacted him as the Venezuelan leader seeks to mediate between the leftist guerrillas and Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
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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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Better known for his trademark anti-U.S. tirades, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez takes on a more delicate role on Friday when he tries to broker a deal to free hostages held by Colombia's Marxist guerrillas.
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France offered Wednesday to take in any Marxist rebels exchanged in a prisoner swap if Colombia's FARC released a group of hostages including French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.
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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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Families of Colombian hostages on Monday welcomed a proposed October 8 meeting between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and guerrillas as an advance in talks to free kidnap victims held for years in rebel jungle camps.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A Venezuelan- sponsored plan to free three hostages held by Colombian rebels was stalled by the guerrillas' failure to reveal their location, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said it may unravel if the stalemate drags on.
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Colombia is proposing to meet with Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate the release of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostages including three Americans.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the United States on Sunday for backing Colombia in a dispute over the abduction of a top Colombian rebel and said Washington was trying to divide Latin America.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to send aircraft into Colombia on Friday to pick up three hostages from Marxist rebels and score a diplomatic victory after recent setbacks for his socialist revolution.