Venezuela Halts Colombia Business Deals Over Kidnap
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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.
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Colombian Marxist guerrillas have said they will turn over three of their hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after Bogota ended the leftist leader's efforts to secure a deal to free rebel captives.
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ConocoPhillips on Tuesday said Venezuela assumed control of its operations in the country after it was unable to reach an agreement with the government over the nationalization of two multibillion-dollar oil projects.
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Colombia's Marxist rebels are set to free two women hostages to Venezuela after a previous mission to pick them up collapsed on New Years Eve, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday.
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Colombian rebel group Farc is to free at least three hostages to Venezuelan head Hugo Chavez, reports say.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged the international community to stop labeling Colombian guerrillas as terrorists on Friday, a day after rebels freed two high-profile women hostages.
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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says his planes can fly to Colombia to pick up rebel-held hostages but Bogota must agree.
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Conoco Phillips is pulling out of its Venezuelan oil ventures after failing to agree on new contract terms with the populist government of President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez, and Exxon Mobil said it had also reached an impasse in negotiations there.
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Venezuela has called back its ambassador to Colombia, accusing the neighboring country Thursday of bribing Venezuelan authorities to participate in last month's capture of a Colombian rebel in Caracas.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A Venezuelan helicopter mission to rescue three hostages held for years by Colombian rebels in jungle camps was delayed again on Saturday because guerrilla leaders have not given the final go-ahead.
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Marxist Colombian rebels kept three hostages waiting to be released on Monday as leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez worried that more delays could derail the hand-over he had negotiated with the guerrillas.
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The U.S. government ordered Venezuela to close its military purchasing office in Miami after suspending arms sales to the South American country, American officials said Thursday.
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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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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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BOGOTA/CARACAS  - A top Colombian guerrilla was  protected by Venezuelan officials before his capture, an action  that has triggered the worst dispute in years between the  Andean countries, Colombia said on Sunday.
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President Alvaro Uribe said Saturday that he has forbid government officials from discussing a dispute with Venezuela over the abduction of a Marxist guerrilla on Venezuelan soil.
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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.