Chavez meets Colombia rebels
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he has held talks with a representative of Colombia's Farc rebel group.
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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday Colombian rebels are ready to free two hostages, telling him the location they can be picked up from.
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Venezuela's President Chavez arrives in Argentina for talks on integrating Venezuela into a regional trade bloc.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe met relatives of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt on Sunday at the start of a tour aimed at rekindling European efforts to help release hostages held by Colombian rebels.
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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez warned Sunday that the his country's worst crisis with Colombia in years isn't yet over, and a resolution depends on his upcoming meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
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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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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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Colombian rebels said in a letter on Monday intense military activity had impeded the release of three hostages they had promised to hand over to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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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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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he planned to hold talks with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Venezuela in an attempt to break a stalemate on freeing kidnap victims held for years by the Marxist rebels.
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Radical government opponents allegedly planning to assassinate President Hugo Chavez are seeking refuge in a poorly patrolled mountainous region in neighboring Colombia, Venezuela's interior minister said Tuesday.
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Colombia's hardline government said Friday it is willing to meet with members of the country's main leftist rebel group in an unprecedented offer aimed at freeing dozens of rebel-held hostages, including three Americans.
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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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Left-wing Colombian rebels indicate they are ready to meet Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for preliminary talks.
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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.