Venezuela cuts ties with Colombia
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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez suspends key ties with Colombia over a "violation of national sovereignty".
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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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CARACAS -- A top Colombian rebel captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela, possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said yesterday. Through his statement, Venezuela's government appeared to be moving toward asserting that Rodrigo Granda, the foreign relations chief of Colombia's FARC rebel group, was kidnapped in the ...
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The capture of a Colombian rebel on the streets of Caracas has triggered a diplomatic crisis with Colombia that has even drawn in the United States, with a top general accusing the Bush administration Friday of trying to undermine his government.
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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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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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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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President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela.
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Efforts at freeing hostages held by Colombian rebels were stalled over the weekend when neighboring Venezuela scrapped plans for talks to be held in Caracas aimed at clinching prisoner exchange.
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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 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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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - A mystery over whether acaptured top Colombian Marxist rebel was arrested in Colombiaor kidnapped from neighboring Venezuela is turning into apolitical hot potato for leftist Venezuelan President HugoChavez.
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to the border with Colombia to prevent food from being smuggled out of the country, a Venezuelan general said, the latest step in President Hugo Chavez's campaign to stem food shortages.
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CARACAS -- A mystery over whether a captured top Colombian Marxist rebel was arrested in Colombia or kidnapped from neighboring Venezuela is turning into a political hot potato for leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
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Venezuela's foreign minister on Tuesday dismissed the U.S. government's decision to cut anti-drug aid to the South American nation, saying it does not need money from "the devil."
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President Hugo  Chavez and Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe agreed on Tuesday to  boost security cooperation and restart stalled trade deals  after meeting to end a dispute over a captured Colombian  guerrilla leader.
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Colombia's government on Sunday cleared the way for FARC guerrillas to handover three more hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez even as the Andean neighbors quarrel over his role in freeing rebel captives.